hw.vga.textmode=1 and the installation media

[Borja Marcos]

> On 10 Dec 2017, at 09:47, Eugene M. Zheganin <emz at norma.perm.ru> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> would be really nice if the 11.2 and subsequent versions would come with the hw.vga.textmode=1 as the default in the installation media. Because you know, there's a problem with some vendors (like HP) who's servers are incapable of showing graphics in IPMI with the default hw.vga.textmode=0 (yeah, I'm aware that most of the vendors don't have this issue), and there's still a bug that prevents this from being set from a loader prompt - USB keyboard doesn't work at least in 11.0 there (seems to be some sort of FreeBSD "holy cow", along with sshd starting last, after all the local daemons. I would ask again to fix the latter as I did last years, but it really seems to be a cornerstone which the FreeBSD is built upon).

Indeed. I never understood the merit of using graphical modes on the console.

HP’s iLO has a nice feature. Unless the console is set to graphics mode it’s possible to access it through a ssh
session. No need to fumble with Java or modified VNC versions.




Borja.