Darrick Hartman wrote:
> Kristian,
>
> Please consider adding Arno's firewall as part of the standard build.
> It takes very little space on the image and simplifies advanced firewall
> options. I also had one person contact me frustrated with the via image
> because "they didn't get anything on the screen when they booted". I
> explained it was because the default 'via' target has a console on the
> serial port only. I guess I don't see why we can't have both? If most
> laptops had a serial port it wouldn't matter as much, but fewer and
> fewer models do.
>
> The frustrated person ended up using the geni586 image instead.
>
> For my personal user base, I can maintain a custom image with the
> options changed to allow a console on both the serial port and tty1.
>
> Darrick (who is continuing to be swamped with the wedding 19 days out.)
>
Darrick (who should be really nervous about getting married in 18 days),
I am with you on Arno's firewall. Quite frankly, I just forgot to
include it.
While you are making your demands (haha), I added options for serial
console on VIA and geni586. You can now select a serial console for
either in trunk or 0.4, with the default being whatever the "normal"
console (VGA, PS/2) is.
--
Kristian Kielhofner (who is glad he isn't getting married anytime soon)
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