Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:12:40 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> Cc: ticso@cicely.de (Bernd Walter), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual console don't work Message-ID: <199902021712.JAA36862@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199902020915.LAA00389@ceia.nordier.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
:Bernd Walter wrote:
:
:> I use -h -D in /boot.config
:> Today I wanted to boot with monitor and keyboard.
:> All I got was the first stage of the news boot loader on vga and seriel.
:> The prompt itself goes only on seriel so there wasn't a chance to switch
:> the console back to vga without a terminal.
:
:This is deliberate, FWIW. The old bootblocks privately define
:RB_DUAL, and you won't find it in <sys/reboot.h> with the other
:flags like RB_SINGLE, RB_SERIAL, etc.
:
:For compatibility, the new bootblocks honor the -D option, as far
:as their own behavior goes. But they don't pass RB_DUAL, as one
:of the "howto" flags, on to either the kernel or /boot/loader.
:
:So -D is preserved only as a backward-compatibility option (and
:therefore applies only to stage two of the bootstrap), and /boot/loader
:knows nothing about it.
:
:--
:Robert Nordier
Is there a replacement for this functionality with the new bootloader?
I was trying to get duel consoles working on a rack mount machine a week
or two ago and met with utter failure. It was quite annoying.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199902021712.JAA36862>