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From: anthony@pinkworks.com
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Subject: During installation sc0 device is required, but you can disable it
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>Number:         5001
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       During installation sc0 device is required, but you can disable it
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 10 16:00:00 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Fri Mar 5 03:03:47 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Fri Mar  5 03:04:12 PST 1999
>Originator:     Anthony J Wright
>Release:        2.2.5
>Organization:
Pinkworks Ltd
>Environment:
>Description:
I had big problems installing FreeBSD which were caused by me disabling
the Syscons console driver (sc0) during the 'Kernel Configuration'
stage. I was disabling all the drivers that I didn't want (which is an
awful lot), and since thinking in terms of MS-DOS, didn't register the
need for the console driver. There was no warning/error message when I
did so, but the result was that the system seemed to hang when I tried
to move onto the next stage of the installation.

I think that is should not be possible to disable to sc0 device.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create a 2.2.5 installation disk.
Boot from it.
Disable the sc0 device at Kernel Configuration.

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: anthony@pinkworks.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/5001: During installation sc0 device is required, but you can disable it
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:57:22 +0100

 As anthony@pinkworks.com wrote:
 
 > I think that is should not be possible to disable to sc0 device.
 
 There might be good reasons why you want to be able to disable the sc0
 device, for example if you're booting from a serial console and don't
 have the appropriate video hardware installed at all.  (Yes, about 80
 or such percent of the PeeCees do know how to handle this situation.)
 
 Unfortunately, the configuration screen at first-time boot is the same
 as for any further boot (basically), so generally disabling to shoot
 into your foot is not an option.
 
 Ideally, one should be able to install from a serial console, mind
 you, but it indeed takes a new system installation tool in order to
 allow *this*. :-)  If all goes well with Jordan's intentions, FreeBSD
 3.0 might have that tool.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Fri Mar 5 03:03:47 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Asked and answered. 
>Unformatted:
