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H A D | startbsdinstall | diff a09af1b7fd95d9479954c5b8e96a126cad468424 Mon Oct 03 18:09:17 CEST 2022 Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@FreeBSD.org> bsdinstall release: Start installer on multiple consoles
Currently the installer is only started on the primary ("high level") console. For systems where this is the video console and serial consoles aren't of interest, and headless systems with just a serial console, this works just fine, but for systems where both video and serial consoles are present and meaningful this requires the user to select the right primary console in loader, with the poor user experience of the system appearing to hang if they leave the wrong one selected. This notably differs from our multi-user behaviour of spawning getty on every console, where the only issue with selecting the wrong primary console is a quieter boot process until the login prompt appears (or the system crashes).
Instead, use the newly-added runconsoles helper to run the installer on every console (except for ttyv*, where only ttyv0 will be used). For interactive installations, any of the consoles can be used, though only one should be used at a time as no effort is made to avoid multiple installations running at the same time clobbering each other. If the Live CD option is selected, the other installers (which should, if the user is well-behaved, be sitting at the welcome screen) will be killed. If an automated install is in use, the primary console will be used to display its output, and the others will direct the user to the primary console.
Reviewed by: brooks, gjb Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36805
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H A D | rc.local | diff a09af1b7fd95d9479954c5b8e96a126cad468424 Mon Oct 03 18:09:17 CEST 2022 Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@FreeBSD.org> bsdinstall release: Start installer on multiple consoles
Currently the installer is only started on the primary ("high level") console. For systems where this is the video console and serial consoles aren't of interest, and headless systems with just a serial console, this works just fine, but for systems where both video and serial consoles are present and meaningful this requires the user to select the right primary console in loader, with the poor user experience of the system appearing to hang if they leave the wrong one selected. This notably differs from our multi-user behaviour of spawning getty on every console, where the only issue with selecting the wrong primary console is a quieter boot process until the login prompt appears (or the system crashes).
Instead, use the newly-added runconsoles helper to run the installer on every console (except for ttyv*, where only ttyv0 will be used). For interactive installations, any of the consoles can be used, though only one should be used at a time as no effort is made to avoid multiple installations running at the same time clobbering each other. If the Live CD option is selected, the other installers (which should, if the user is well-behaved, be sitting at the welcome screen) will be killed. If an automated install is in use, the primary console will be used to display its output, and the others will direct the user to the primary console.
Reviewed by: brooks, gjb Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36805
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