bin/161047: bsdinstall should not run on vt0
Jaakko Heinonen
jh at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 7 14:40:04 UTC 2011
On 2011-10-07, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> > I have an experimental patch to start bsdinstall on ttyv8 when the
> > installer is run on syscons:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/bsdinstall-getty.3.diff
> >
>
> I don't think this works in the context of serial console installations,
> and I'd prefer to keep this kind of logic isolated to things like
> /usr/src/release/rc.local instead of polluting the installer itself with
> knowledge of how it is run. Can you think of a way to do it that doesn't
> break serial installations? There's some logic in rc.local already to
> detect the console type.
My intention was to not break serial console installations but I haven't
tested it. With the patch rc.local exits only if syscons is detected. In
the serial console case the installer should work as it did previously
(but again I haven't tested it).
--
Jaakko
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