> On 10 Dec 2017, at 09:47, Eugene M. Zheganin <e...@norma.perm.ru> wrote: > > Hi, > > would be really nice if the 11.2 and subsequent versions would come with the > hw.vga.textmode=1 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=0 (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’s iLO has a nice feature. Unless the console is set to graphics mode it’s possible to access it through a ssh session. No need to fumble with Java or modified VNC versions. Borja. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
