Hi, would be really nice if the 11.2 and subsequent versions would come with the hw.vga.textmode=1 as the default in the installation media. Because you know, there's a problem with some vendors (like HP) who's servers are incapable of showing graphics in IPMI with the default hw.vga.textmode=0 (yeah, I'm aware that most of the vendors don't have this issue), and there's still a bug that prevents this from being set from a loader prompt - USB keyboard doesn't work at least in 11.0 there (seems to be some sort of FreeBSD "holy cow", along with sshd starting last, after all the local daemons. I would ask again to fix the latter as I did last years, but it really seems to be a cornerstone which the FreeBSD is built upon). Thanks. Eugene.
> On 10 Dec 2017, at 09:47, Eugene M. Zheganin <emz at norma.perm.ru> wrote: > > Hi, > > would be really nice if the 11.2 and subsequent versions would come with the hw.vga.textmode=1 as the default in the installation media. Because you know, there's a problem with some vendors (like HP) who's servers are incapable of showing graphics in IPMI with the default hw.vga.textmode=0 (yeah, I'm aware that most of the vendors don't have this issue), and there's still a bug that prevents this from being set from a loader prompt - USB keyboard doesn't work at least in 11.0 there (seems to be some sort of FreeBSD "holy cow", along with sshd starting last, after all the local daemons. I would ask again to fix the latter as I did last years, but it really seems to be a cornerstone which the FreeBSD is built upon).Indeed. I never understood the merit of using graphical modes on the console. HP?s iLO has a nice feature. Unless the console is set to graphics mode it?s possible to access it through a ssh session. No need to fumble with Java or modified VNC versions. Borja.
Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:> Hi, > > would be really nice if the 11.2 and subsequent versions would come > with the hw.vga.textmode=1 as the default in the installation media. > Because you know, there's a problem with some vendors (like HP) who's > servers are incapable of showing graphics in IPMI with the default > hw.vga.textmode=0 (yeah, I'm aware that most of the vendors don't have > this issue), and there's still a bug that prevents this from being set > from a loader prompt - USB keyboard doesn't work at least in 11.0 > there (seems to be some sort of FreeBSD "holy cow", along with sshd > starting last, after all the local daemons. I would ask again to fix > the latter as I did last years, but it really seems to be a > cornerstone which the FreeBSD is built upon).Yeah the USB 'bug' has been there since FreeBSD 7/8.x I have a couple of loader command that make it work again... will let you know later when my container arrives (next week) as the details are stored on the HP blades (being transported.) It also breaks most/all of the Softlayer consoles since 8.3(ish) - didn't manage to completely fix this as had no bios access to ensure the USB is in the correct mode. Of course don't forget that the older iLO based HP servers also have these problems - except if you pay the license fee for the advanced iLO support that supports graphics mode... as well as 2 cursor mode (what the f*** would anyone want 2 cursors on a console for anyhow?... never worked that out.) Michelle