Bug 20128

Summary:	i386 4.1-RC2 boot floppies fail to use comconsole
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	navan_c <navan_c>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	jkh
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description navan_c 2000-07-23 17:00:00 UTC

The kern.flp does NOT use the serial console (no kbd attached).

Fix: 

Guess:
need 'boot.config' that contains '-P'.
How-To-Repeat: 1. unplug kbd
2. attach serial console
3. boot w/kern.flp

Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer

2000-07-27 12:34:50 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->jkh

Jordan, are we rolling yet another release that doesn't have 
boot.config containing -P in it?  Is this an oversight, 
or was it done deliberately?

Comment 2 jkh freebsd_committer

2000-07-27 12:43:03 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I hate to say it, but this is not a bug.  Using -P turned out to 
be a bug because it totally broke the installer on other systems 
(like all ASUS K7 motherboards) which don't properly detect the  
absence of a keyboard using the detection method we used.  If we 
can go to a "safer" detection method in the future (and I believe that 
kazu is working on something like that), we could simply make it the 
default (obsoleting -P) and fix the problem that way.