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bsdinstall release: Start installer on multiple consoles

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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
This commit is contained in:
Jessica Clarke 2022-10-03 17:09:17 +01:00
parent d577d6178b
commit a09af1b7fd
2 changed files with 56 additions and 3 deletions
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release/rc.local
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@ -1,7 +1,57 @@
#!/bin/sh
# $FreeBSD$
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
#
# Copyright (c) 2022 Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@FreeBSD.org>
#
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
# are met:
# 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
# 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
# documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
#
# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
# ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
# IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
# ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
# FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
# DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
# OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
# HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
# LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
# OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
# SUCH DAMAGE.
#
bsdinstall_multicons_disabled()
{
local var value
var=bsdinstall.multicons_disable
value=`kenv -q $var`
case "${value:-NO}" in
[Yy][Ee][Ss]|[Tt][Rr][Uu][Ee]|[Oo][Nn]|1)
return 0
;;
[Nn][Oo]|[Ff][Aa][Ll][Ss][Ee]|[Oo][Ff][Ff]|0)
return 1
;;
*)
warn "$var is not set properly, ignoring"
return 1
;;
esac
}
# resolv.conf from DHCP ends up in here, so make sure the directory exists
mkdir /tmp/bsdinstall_etc
/usr/libexec/bsdinstall/startbsdinstall
if bsdinstall_multicons_disabled; then
/usr/libexec/bsdinstall/startbsdinstall primary
else
echo
/usr/libexec/bsdinstall/runconsoles /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/startbsdinstall %
fi

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usr.sbin/bsdinstall/startbsdinstall
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@ -45,7 +45,10 @@ export TERM
resizewin -z
if [ -f /etc/installerconfig ]; then
if bsdinstall script /etc/installerconfig; then
if [ "$1" != "primary" ]; then
bsddialog --backtitle "FreeBSD Installer" --title "Installing" --msgbox "FreeBSD is being installed from a script; please use the primary console." 0 0
. "$0"
elif bsdinstall script /etc/installerconfig; then
bsddialog --backtitle "FreeBSD Installer" --title "Complete" --no-cancel --ok-label "Reboot" --pause "Installation of FreeBSD complete! Rebooting in 10 seconds" 10 30 10
reboot
else