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| author | cperciva <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-06-09 13:58:31 +0000 |
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| committer | cperciva <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-06-09 13:58:31 +0000 |
| commit | 1db263cf301556809ca8767a607b150ae9b5baaf (patch) | |
| tree | 303c810c0ddb6d5059c87bb15eb2e16d72f1fba6 /release/tools | |
| parent | e5d79957a91dedf943729182545c1828d823049b (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-1db263cf301556809ca8767a607b150ae9b5baaf.zip FreeBSD-src-1db263cf301556809ca8767a607b150ae9b5baaf.tar.gz | |
Switch from console="comconsole" to boot_multicons="YES" in EC2.
Amazon recently introduced an API for capturing screenshots of an
emulated VGA device; this commit makes that (somewhat) useful.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Diffstat (limited to 'release/tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | release/tools/ec2.conf | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/tools/ec2.conf b/release/tools/ec2.conf index 557e602..be7891b 100644 --- a/release/tools/ec2.conf +++ b/release/tools/ec2.conf @@ -62,8 +62,10 @@ vm_extra_pre_umount() { echo 'autoboot_delay="-1"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf echo 'beastie_disable="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf - # The EC2 console is an emulated serial port. - echo 'console="comconsole"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf + # EC2 has two consoles: An emulated serial port ("system log"), + # which has been present since 2006; and a VGA console ("instance + # screenshot") which was introduced in 2016. + echo 'boot_multicons="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf # Some older EC2 hardware used a version of Xen with a bug in its # emulated serial port. It is not clear if EC2 still has any such |
