Bug 62448 - Terminal Type during install
Summary: Terminal Type during install
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: sparc64 (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-sparc64 (Nobody)
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Reported: 2004-02-06 20:30 UTC by Jack Liddle
Modified: 2004-02-07 02:29 UTC (History)
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Description Jack Liddle 2004-02-06 20:30:23 UTC 
When I boot from the CDROM I get as far as choosing a terminal type to run sysinstall with.  All the terminals suffer the following

Garbled out put:  Lots of peculiar characters which aren't present in the manual screenshots
Arrow Keys not working: I can't move up and down the menus.
Screen Refresh (xterm).  When I select a particular menu option, the menu overlays the old one without deleting it.  Everything gets confused and unreadable.

I've seen this mentioned elsewhere at bsdforums.org but no fix is suggested.

How-To-Repeat: Reboot, rinse repeat
Comment 1 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-02-07 02:28:01 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

It's documented in the release notes, and discussed extensively on the 
mailing list, that installing via the system console is not yet supported. 
Use a serial console instead for now.