On Apr 2, 2005, at 09:45, Ralph Hempel wrote:
I haven't tried it with 5.x, but here's how I modify the CD to allow headless installs for 4.x
<http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/ bdgFreeBSDHeadless.html>
Wouldn't is be better to simply use the "-P" option instead of "-h"? From boot(8) on my FreeBSD 4.x system:
-P probe the keyboard. If no keyboard is found, the
-D and -h options are automatically set.
The following is in the BUGS section of boot(8):
Due to space constraints, the keyboard probe initiated by the -P option
is simply a test that the BIOS has detected an ``extended'' keyboard. If
an ``XT/AT'' keyboard (with no F11 and F12 keys, etc.) is attached, the
probe will fail.
This way if there's a keyboard, then there's presumably a screen, so the 'regular' way of using the console will be used. If there's no keyboard then serial console will be activated. This is how Sun hardware works by default and it works quite well I find.
Are there any major issues with making this the default for x86 (and amd64?) for future releases?
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