Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:01:03 +0400 From: Igor Pokrovsky <ip@unixway.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader hangs on the latest -STABLE Message-ID: <A55492C2-D773-41EF-846C-F85152F6E469@unixway.org> In-Reply-To: <8150d268-3390-a5d8-9783-84846c1c83a5@grosbein.net> References: <CFAD02B2-BE44-41C3-B511-AAC5E1862109@unixway.org> <8150d268-3390-a5d8-9783-84846c1c83a5@grosbein.net>
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> On 24 апр. 2020 г., at 13:55, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote: > > 24.04.2020 11:26, Igor Pokrovsky пишет: > >> Hello all, >> >> I haven’t been using FreeBSD since 8-STABLE times. Recently I tried to install latest 12-STABLE on my old computer. >> But even during initial boot up loader hangs. Eventually I was able to proceed with installation after replacing loader in >> the installation disk with one found in my old system 8-STABLE. The same happened when I tried zfs on root partition. >> >> I used MBR partition on PATA hard drive. Motherboard was ASUS A8V (Athlon64). > > Modern FreeBSD versions use newer vt(4) console driver that defaults to pixel mode rendering > and depends on correctness of ACPI tables of motherboard's firmware much more > than old syscons(4) console driver that is still available. > You should try escaping to the loader prompt first and run these commands: > > set kern.vty=sc > boot > > Try it and see if it helps. If so, don't forget adding "kern.vty=sc" to /boot/loader.conf > after installation. > Yes, I tried sc, but it doesnt help too. I attached my drive to Promise RAID controller and system boots just fine now. Probably the cause is in hardware, failed controller was made by VIA. iphome | help
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