Ruben de Groot wrote: > The reason there's a flag in the GENERIC kernel to only try the > keyboard once on boot-up has something to do with trying to make the > GENERIC kernel as generic as possible (so when a check for PS/2 keyboard > fails, for example, it will continue to look for other keyboards, like > USB). At least, that's what I'm told.
A general solution would be extremely useful for sites (like mine) that can't guarantee that a keyboard will be there when the host reboots. Is the serial port assumed to be the console if all the keyboard tests (legacy, USB, etc.) fail? If so, then a better flag would be a global, "If no keyboard(s) are found, should I use the serial port as the console?"-flag. Settinng this flag to "no" would re-check for physical keyboards now and then. --Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
