On Nov 3, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
On Nov 2, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 11/02/13 12:59, Teske, Devin wrote:
Hi all,
Another Call For Testing...
This one is for bsdinstall.
Will look at the rest later...
+ Update bsdinstall's "config" script to adjust ttyu* entries in
/etc/ttys when it is determined that we are in-fact doing an install
over serial (e.g. bhyve).
I think this is the wrong solution.
Thank you for your feedback. Sincerely.
The installer is run in a lot of circumstances, and tying it to the
boot environment is a mistake. If we want serial consoles to
default to on for x86, they should default to on (they do for most
other architectures). The magic should never ever be in the
installer.
Well, I would say we *don't* want serial to be on by default...
That would actually hurt me at $work where we actually use
the serial ports for barcode readers.
Hmm, that's tricky.
Setting the terminal type to vt100 unconditionally is also
questionable. Using kbdcontrol also doesn't do the right thing,
since it will turn on serial consoles if you install to, say, a
disk image from an xterm or if you use newcons.
Kk.
I'm CC'ing Peter Grehan, because we only arrived at this solution
based on a quick discussion with Michael Dexter at vBSDcon with
respect to bhyve.
Peter, can you restate the problem for Nathan so that we can
maybe find a better home for this change? or perhaps more clearly
define (than I) how we arrived at the code for the bhyve work?
So I guess the real problem here is that init does not know enough to
start a login prompt on the console. This has irritated me for a while
actually. Maybe that should be fixed? The "console" entry, which would
always automatically work, in /etc/ttys is marked off, which
apparently happened in the runup to 4.0. It might be time to revisit
that.
-Nathan
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