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?
The issue is that /etc/ttys is static. Serial console installs assume that the user knows that the file should be edited manually to enable getty on the serial port. This seems at odds with a server o/s :(
The suggestion I brought up with Devin was to see if the install was done on a serial port, and if so, then ask if the user wanted to enable a getty on that terminal. I think the patch might need some work: for instance, a sysctl could be used to see if the console is on a ttyu* device, and only enable for that and not for all ttys. I was going to try it out this weekend but was a bit slow off the mark :)
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.
That's also not good :( /dev/console is assumed to be a sink for log messages and not really an interactive tty.
later, Peter. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
