> On 14 Dec 2017, at 11:58, Michelle Sullivan <miche...@sorbs.net> wrote: > > Eugene M. Zheganin 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). > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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"
