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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@www.svzserv.kemerovo.su>
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Subject: Some problems with 4.9-RELEASE installation using comconsole
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>Number:         58951
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall(8): some problems with 4.9-RELEASE installation using comconsole
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    brucec
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 04 21:20:14 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jun 25 00:37:23 UTC 2010
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jun 25 00:37:23 UTC 2010
>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@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.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Cc: stable@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/58951: Some problems with 4.9-RELEASE installation using comconsole
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:12:18 +0800

 Hi!
 
 Is there anyone interested in fixing 4.x-RELEASE serial console
 installation?
 
 Eugene

From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Cc: arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/58951: Some problems with 4.9-RELEASE installation using
	comconsole
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:12:18 +0800

 Hi!
 
 Is there anyone interested in fixing 4.x-RELEASE serial console
 installation?
 
 Eugene
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Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->brucec  
Responsible-Changed-By: brucec 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Jun 23 15:07:29 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Take. This is partially fixed in HEAD: a getty is now enabled  
if the system doesn't have a VGA card installed. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=58951 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed  
State-Changed-By: brucec 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 25 00:34:57 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
The presence of a keyboard cannot be determined at that stage of the boot 
process on modern machines because they tend not to have PS/2 keyboards 
installed, but use USB instead. If legacy USB support is disabled, the 
keyboard is only activated when the USB stack is loaded. The serial console will 
however still be enabled if a VGA card isn't found. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=58951 
>Unformatted:
