Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Mon Sep 26 18:04:39 UTC 2011


On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> I agree, the lack of a virtual/emergency terminal seems a bit silly.
>
> I'm not sure about the cons25 versus xterm stuff - you're not the
> first person to report this. Guys/girls/other (Hi SF!) - why is this?
> :)
>
> It shouldn't be that hard to submit a patch to enable those extra vtys?

While one's at it, having the primary installer dialogs be on not-vt0 
(i.e. not the console) would eliminate the issue where LOR spew takes out 
parts of the dialog.

-Ben Kaduk


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