Serial console install
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 8 14:26:24 PDT 2005
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.
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