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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Chosing textmode during boot Date: 14 Dec 1996 00:53:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <58str5$jti@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <2hn2vwowrn.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32561 Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <frodef@stud.cs.uit.no> wrote: > In linux this is > done by the boot-loader, which is nice because you don't lose the > kernel messages etc. It's actually done by the BIOS there, AFAIK. FreeBSD's boot loader doesn't offer this, since the console driver would clobber it anyway. Both console drivers (or all three, if you include the substitute `pcvt' driver into the consideration) have _very_ different approaches. Your best bet is to put the vidcontrol int rc.local, for all the VTs you're interested in. > So I guess I have two questions: How do I work the bootloader (naming > proper manpages would suffice) and how (if possible) do I change the > default VGA textmode? The boot process is described in the handbook, and in the boot(8) manual page. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)