Developer ISOs need a serial console to install?

[charliem]

Hi Folks –

The 2.0-alpha-alpha developer ISOs use a serial console for the install dialog, but the 2.0-alpha-alpha live-cd ISOs use the VGA console (FreeBSD_RELENG_8_0 is the only developer ISO I checked).

Just curious if this is intended?  I know the embedded images use a serial console.

I couldn't find any mention of needing a serial console on the http://devwiki.pfsense.org/DevelopersBootStrapAndDevIso/ page.  May be a good thing to add, as it took me a while to realize the ISO was not hanging at boot, but I just needed to look at the serial line.

regards, ......... Charlie

[jimp]

That's not intentional. The devs were aware that it wasn't booting properly, but I'm not sure they knew this was the issue, I'll pass it along.

I think they may have already fixed this though:

https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-tools/repos/mainline/commits/cb7ce0563e284b2fba318992ab8bb89f1dca6bd2

Have you tried a more recent dev iso?

[charliem]

Only two developers ISOs I've ever tried:
http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_8_0/pfSense_HEAD/livecd_installer/pfSense-Developers-2.0-ALPHA-ALPHA-20090523-0539.iso.gz, and
http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_8_0/pfSense_HEAD/livecd_installer/pfSense-Developers-2.0-ALPHA-ALPHA-20090522-1218.iso.gz

So by the timestamps, looks like the commit is in is in the first one but not the second.  No change though, both point to the serial console.

regards, …... Charlie