ср, 26 февр. 2020 г. в 13:33, Benny Siegert <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:36 PM Andrei M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error > > notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the > > first vt. In my case it mostly concerns notifications about hardware > > probing going on or when a connection change happens to the net card > > (I use an ASUS K70ID laptop). It happens every few minutes, looks > > terrible from the aesthetic point of view, when you're typing > > something and then this breaks your line, even within vi, and can even > > be some sort of security threat when it messes up the password prompt. > > When I last installed OpenBSD, it did the same, except in white on > blue. Worse, it would print it onto whichever console you were on (I > think).
OK, I tried to install OpenBSD and FreeBSD on this laptop a few years ago and there wasn't issues like that. But as I decided to stick to NetBSD I haven't had experience with those OSes anymore. > In NetBSD, kernel messages go to a VT called "console", which is the > first VT by default. Once you finish the installation, you can edit > /etc/ttys, set console to "off" and ttyE0 to "on". This turns the > first VT into a regular VT, and kernel messages go nowhere by default. > Or you could connect the console to a serial port. Or if you run X, > Xconsole is typically able to show kernel messages in a window. Yes, thanks for this, that's not a problem as long as you're booted and can adjust the system. But not in the installer sadly. Then, I do a lot of stuff in Linux and I'm used to work in the first VT without thinking twice, where kernel messages just go to the system log.
