From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 5 01:33:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA07020 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 01:33:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07013 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 01:33:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA08884; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:36:42 +0300 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:36:42 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Douglas Ambrisko cc: Bruce Evans , archie@tribe.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE speed In-Reply-To: <199604042152.NAA11190@cozumel.tcs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Douglas Ambrisko wrote: > Bruce Evans writes: > | > | >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. There may be another catch - the motherboard (actually BIOS) requires a card to be there and wont even think of booting if the card isn't there - I can't however comment on percentage of such motherboards. There are at least some behave so. > > It would be nice if scprobe could avoid the panic by detecting if a monitor > card was there. > > Doug A. > Sander Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :)