From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Thu Dec 14 09:16:39 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901BDE9D637 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:16:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from borjam@sarenet.es) Received: from cu01176b.smtpx.saremail.com (cu01176b.smtpx.saremail.com [195.16.151.151]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53E257BD6D for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:16:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from borjam@sarenet.es) Received: from [172.16.8.47] (unknown [192.148.167.11]) by proxypop01.sare.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4A1659DDF74; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:10:55 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.2 \(3445.5.20\)) Subject: Re: hw.vga.textmode=1 and the installation media From: Borja Marcos In-Reply-To: <281b3d7d-46ef-d1b8-304f-1573abeedc20@norma.perm.ru> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:10:55 +0100 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <7E07BFD6-EDEB-41C8-A416-868CB3677B86@sarenet.es> References: <281b3d7d-46ef-d1b8-304f-1573abeedc20@norma.perm.ru> To: "Eugene M. Zheganin" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.5.20) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:16:39 -0000 > On 10 Dec 2017, at 09:47, Eugene M. Zheganin = wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > would be really nice if the 11.2 and subsequent versions would come = with the hw.vga.textmode=3D1 as the default in the installation media. = Because you know, there's a problem with some vendors (like HP) who's = servers are incapable of showing graphics in IPMI with the default = hw.vga.textmode=3D0 (yeah, I'm aware that most of the vendors don't have = this issue), and there's still a bug that prevents this from being set = from a loader prompt - USB keyboard doesn't work at least in 11.0 there = (seems to be some sort of FreeBSD "holy cow", along with sshd starting = last, after all the local daemons. I would ask again to fix the latter = as I did last years, but it really seems to be a cornerstone which the = FreeBSD is built upon). Indeed. I never understood the merit of using graphical modes on the = console. HP=E2=80=99s iLO has a nice feature. Unless the console is set to = graphics mode it=E2=80=99s possible to access it through a ssh session. No need to fumble with Java or modified VNC versions. Borja.