From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Thu Dec 14 17:29:08 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 A346EE885D2 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:29:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA406EC7C for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:29:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from 124-169-232-53.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO midget.dons.net.au) ([124.169.232.53]) by ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 15 Dec 2017 03:53:57 +1030 Received: from midget.dons.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.15.1/8.14.9) with ESMTPS id vBEHNbWd098333 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2017 03:53:50 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by midget.dons.net.au (8.15.1/8.14.9/Submit) id vBEHK2tA095051 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2017 03:50:02 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: midget.dons.net.au: mailnull set sender to using -f Received: from [192.168.0.15] (tru75-16-78-196-125-127.fbx.proxad.net [78.196.125.127]) by 124-169-232-53.dyn.iinet.net.au (envelope-sender ) (MIMEDefang) with ESMTP id vBEHJnEf095023; Fri, 15 Dec 2017 03:50:02 +1030 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.1 \(3445.4.7\)) Subject: Re: hw.vga.textmode=1 and the installation media From: "O'Connor, Daniel" In-Reply-To: <5A325967.6040302@sorbs.net> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:19:47 +0100 Cc: "Eugene M. Zheganin" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <281b3d7d-46ef-d1b8-304f-1573abeedc20@norma.perm.ru> <5A325967.6040302@sorbs.net> To: Michelle Sullivan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.4.7) X-Spam-Score: 0.4 () No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=HELO_MISC_IP, RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.75 on 10.0.2.1 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 17:29:08 -0000 > On 14 Dec 2017, at 11:58, Michelle Sullivan = 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