09.09.2016 20:59, Jan Bramkamp пишет:
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?
+1
The presence of a ipmi* device could be a good heuristic to select the default
mode.
"ipmi* device" needs ipmi(4) driver in the GENERIC.
And think of NVIDIA users without ipmi hardware...
Loader menu option would be fine.
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