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From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 18:37:27 -0600
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Subject: Re: Boot problems with a new system
To: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:35 PM Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a new system that I have installed FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE (amd64)
> onto, but it won't boot back from the disk.  It installed properly and
> it has booted a couple of times, but lately it always hangs in the
> middle of the boot loader menu.  It always prints the first five menu
> entries, but then hangs when it should print out the kernels that are
> available.  I can still boot with the memstick and "zfs import" the
> pool, and the pool appears fine.  I have tried searching the web, but
> haven't found anything that helps.
>
> These are all loader.conf settings I have tried that don't help:
> vfs.zfs.cache_flush_disable="1"
> kern.cam.ada.write_cache="0"
> kern.cam.boot_delay="5000"
> loader_delay="3"
> boot_verbose="YES"
> verbose_loading="YES"
>

Try adding:

kernels_autodetect="NO"

Thanks,

Kyle Evans