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Subject: i386 4.1-RC2 boot floppies fail to use comconsole
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>Number:         20128
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       i386 4.1-RC2 boot floppies fail to use comconsole
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    jkh
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 23 09:00:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Thu Jul 27 04:43:03 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jul 27 04:44:36 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Navan Carson
>Release:        4.1-RC2 (i386)
>Organization:
>Environment:
unable to install w/o use of serial console
>Description:
The kern.flp does NOT use the serial console (no kbd attached).
>How-To-Repeat:
1. unplug kbd
2. attach serial console
3. boot w/kern.flp
>Fix:
Guess:
need 'boot.config' that contains '-P'.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->jkh 
Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Jul 27 04:34:50 PDT 2000 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Jordan, are we rolling yet another release that doesn't have 
boot.config containing -P in it?  Is this an oversight, 
or was it done deliberately? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20128 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Thu Jul 27 04:43:03 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
I hate to say it, but this is not a bug.  Using -P turned out to 
be a bug because it totally broke the installer on other systems 
(like all ASUS K7 motherboards) which don't properly detect the  
absence of a keyboard using the detection method we used.  If we 
can go to a "safer" detection method in the future (and I believe that 
kazu is working on something like that), we could simply make it the 
default (obsoleting -P) and fix the problem that way. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20128 
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