bin/58951: Some problems with 4.9-RELEASE installation using comconsole

[Eugene Grosbein]

>Number:         58951
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Some problems with 4.9-RELEASE installation using comconsole
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 04 21:20:14 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Eugene Grosbein
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Svyaz Service JSC
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD www.svzserv.kemerovo.su 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Mon Nov 3 13:18:36 KRAT 2003 eu at www.svzserv.kemerovo.su:/home4/obj/home/src/sys/WWW i386

>Description:

	Recently I've installed 4.9-RELEASE(i386) using CD-ROM and comconsole.
	There are two basic problems with comconsole.

	1. CD boot and uses vidconsole unconditionally despite of the fact
	that system misses a keyboard. I remember, 3.x had -P flag
	in /boot.config and switched to serial port automatically.

	2. I managed to command 'set console=comconsole' in the boot loader
	prompt. Installation completed smoothly. After reboot it had
	console=comconsole in the loader configuration (but still no -P
	in /boot.config), that was good. However, there were no getty
	on /dev/console nor on /dev/cuaa0. That's bad. 

>How-To-Repeat:

	Try to install 4.9-RELEASE using serial console.

>Fix:

	Add '-P' to /boot.config and teach sysinstall to edit /etc/ttys
	to run getty on serial console.

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