Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:19:47 +0100 From: "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au> To: Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> Cc: "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hw.vga.textmode=1 and the installation media Message-ID: <B832E955-8844-4461-8322-FDF455355419@dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <5A325967.6040302@sorbs.net> References: <281b3d7d-46ef-d1b8-304f-1573abeedc20@norma.perm.ru> <5A325967.6040302@sorbs.net>
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> On 14 Dec 2017, at 11:58, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> = wrote: >=20 > Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: >> 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). >=20 > Yeah the USB 'bug' has been there since FreeBSD 7/8.x I have a couple = of loader command that make it work again... will let you know later = when my container arrives (next week) as the details are stored on the = HP blades (being transported.) It also breaks most/all of the Softlayer = consoles since 8.3(ish) - didn't manage to completely fix this as had no = bios access to ensure the USB is in the correct mode. Is there some way the loader could detect such systems and enable = textmode for them? -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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