On 09/09/16 11:59, Borja Marcos wrote:
Hi I apologise for being late on this, but I just noticed. The new vt console driver has a very important change in behavior, replacing the ancient “BIOS” text mode with a graphic VGA mode. I don’t know how many people relies on BIOS serial redirection for consoles, but at least HP’s iLO system offers the possibility of accessing the console through a ssh connection instead of requiring a bloated Java console, and it’s a very convenient feature. But it only works in pure “BIOS text mode” (the old sc console driver used this mode as a default). I would rather change the default behavior of vt to hw.vga.textmode=1 so that its behavior mimics the old sc driver. I know the current fad is to hide boot messages with panda bears and beautiful butterflies revolving around them, but boot messages are critical when diagnosing problems. I should have chimed in earlier, I know. But anyway it’s a very minor change. What do you think?
The presence of a ipmi* device could be a good heuristic to select the default mode.
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