From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 4 18:38:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA03450 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:38:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.tribe.com ([205.184.207.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA03445 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.tribe.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA14685; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:37:52 -0800 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199604050237.SAA14685@bubba.tribe.com> Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE speed To: ambrisko@tcs.com (Douglas Ambrisko) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:37:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, archie@tribe.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604042152.NAA11190@cozumel.tcs.com> from "Douglas Ambrisko" at Apr 4, 96 01:52:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > | >Finally, is it the case that FreeBSD 2.1R *requires* a vga card > | >to be installed in order to even boot? My netboot kernel page faults > | >after the device probes when I take out the video card. > | > | It should work. Try disabling the console driver(s). scprobe() always > | succeeds. It's not clear what the driver will do when there is no vga > | card. > > Disable sc0 via boot -c or rebuild a kernel without syscons or pcvt and > this should fix your problem. Make sure you also disable getty on the > virtual consoles. This works for me. > > It would be nice if scprobe could avoid the panic by detecting if a monitor > card was there. Thanks for the help! I recompiled with pcvt and it worked fine (except for garbage output before the serial port probe, so what). I didn't disable the getty's and that didn't seem to hurt anything. Thanks, -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Whistle Communications Corporation