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 separates out the install media-specific environment (creating
bsdinstall_etc) from actually running the installer on a given console.
This will be used by a future change to start the installer on multiple
consoles.
Reviewed by: brooks, gjb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36803
The cons25w line was added in c991a64747 for pc98, along with reading
MACHINE in order to determine what terminal type to use for VTYs. Commit
2b375b4edd removed this condition, leaving it as always using xterm
for VTYs, but left behind the now-unused MACHINE variable and the
cons25w list entry. Clean these up to be how they were before pc98
support was added.
Note that anyone who really needs a cons25w terminal can still request
it, it's just not listed as a common option.
Reviewed by: imp, brooks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36587
This can be useful instead of reboot if installing in a virtual machine,
and the user wants to modify the VM hardware or virtual media mounts
prior to booting into the newly installed system.
Reported by: Juan Manuel Palacios (@jmp_imaginarium on Twitter)
Approved by: philip
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36560
When running over a serial line we end up defaulting to 80x24, which is
rather cramped for many dialog boxes and occupies very little screen
space for most modern terminals. Thus, run resizewin -z to set the
terminal size if not already known before starting the installer, just
as we do for csh and sh login shells already in their default dotfiles.
Reviewed by: jhb, gjb
Obtained from: CheriBSD
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34414
location of /etc/rc.local on the install media is more appropriate as it
knows serial vs. non-serial and can also do the change earlier (so that
even the initial Install dialog can benefit from the change).
MFC after: 3 days
installer on a VTY with no kernel messages (VTY 2), show the installer
log in real time on VTY 3, and spawn a shell on VTY 4.
PR: bin/161047, bin/161048
MFC after: 2 weeks
not configure the host's networking if netbooted [1]. Also fix FTP
installations behind some firewalls [2].
PR: bin/159583 [2]
Reported by: stas [1]
Approved by: re (kib)
support files. This does not change the default behavior of anything.
To make bsdinstall-based media, pre-build world and GENERIC, then run
the release target in Makefile.bsdinstall.
