On Thursday 07 April 2005 08:58 am, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:48 +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: > > On Do, 7.04.2005, 13:23, Eric Anderson sagte: > > > Sławek Żak wrote: > > >> I'd like to ask what's the reason behind requiring a keyboard during > > >> FreeBSD install. Headless configuration is the most common in > > >> datacenters and toying with KVM and VGA cable is often a no-no > > >> (distance in the issue my case). > > > > > > Maybe so, but then people who do have video consoles plugged in would > > > have to hit a key to keep going. > > > > Isn't it possible to send out the output of FreeBSD's bootloader to VGA > > and serial console ? > > This would be perfect. We could have a point in our bootmenu to hit a > > specific key for serial console install, or for VGA based install. > > But I believe for the time being it's not possible to have the same > > output on console and vga. > > See the patch associated with PR kern/66425 - which basically makes the > -D dual-console support work. > > I've been using it on all my machines now for about a year without > problems. When I first floated the idea there were a lot of people who > wanted this support, but since writing it there's been very little > interest in incorporating it into the tree :( > > Not that any of this helps your need at the moment, but hopefully it'll > stop you from having to write any code yourself :) > > Gavin I've grabbed the PR and will look at fixing up some cosmetic nits and testing it locally. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Fri Apr 08 2005 - 19:26:24 UTC
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