Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 02:58:02 +0100 From: Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com> To: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> Cc: John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>, Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: boot loader blank screen Message-ID: <CAPp9Or=tTzXoj-WRvX9LNJHKKeShW7oozNm3FiTQ2yTxodSmXA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66908803-BA6F-4538-9D93-6F85A95108C9@me.com> References: <X/NA4Jk/P%2Bih5WSD@phouka1.phouka.net> <83EB3B04-EAE8-4EC3-820B-2F5C3BADE948@me.com> <66908803-BA6F-4538-9D93-6F85A95108C9@me.com>
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Toomas,
I had more success with this patch, applied on top of 7beeacb27b27 (in
other words: call vbe_is_vga() from cons_update_mode() instead of
vidc_install_font() ):
diff --git a/stand/i386/libi386/vbe.c b/stand/i386/libi386/vbe.c
index 7681eb633b8..1fee4f040f4 100644
--- a/stand/i386/libi386/vbe.c
+++ b/stand/i386/libi386/vbe.c
@@ -1105,6 +1105,15 @@ vbe_default_mode(void)
return (modenum);
}
+bool
+vbe_is_vga(void)
+{
+ if (vbe =3D=3D NULL)
+ return (false);
+
+ return ((vbe->Capabilities & VBE_CAP_NONVGA) =3D=3D 0);
+}
+
COMMAND_SET(vbe, "vbe", "vesa framebuffer mode management", command_vesa);
int
diff --git a/stand/i386/libi386/vbe.h b/stand/i386/libi386/vbe.h
index ff28b960df9..7d07d9ee518 100644
--- a/stand/i386/libi386/vbe.h
+++ b/stand/i386/libi386/vbe.h
@@ -161,3 +161,4 @@ int vbe_set_mode(int);
int vbe_get_mode(void);
int vbe_set_palette(const struct paletteentry *, size_t);
void vbe_modelist(int);
+bool vbe_is_vga(void);
diff --git a/stand/i386/libi386/vidconsole.c b/stand/i386/libi386/vidconsol=
e.c
index b4829db1ea4..22708032a49 100644
--- a/stand/i386/libi386/vidconsole.c
+++ b/stand/i386/libi386/vidconsole.c
@@ -907,7 +907,8 @@ cons_update_mode(bool use_gfx_mode)
unsetenv("screen.width");
unsetenv("screen.depth");
unsetenv("kern.vt.fb.default_mode");
- vidc_install_font();
+ if (!vbe_is_vga())
+ vidc_install_font();
}
free(screen_buffer);
Op ma 4 jan. 2021 om 23:59 schreef Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>:
>
>
>
> > On 4. Jan 2021, at 18:30, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 4. Jan 2021, at 18:22, John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> This is a little weird.
> >>
> >> Somewhere between 13.0-g2ff66a915526 (Dec 30th) and -gd03fd8ede2c4 (De=
c 29th),
> >> I've lost the screen in the boot loader. This is really weird because=
I
> >> didn't update the boot loader (in quite a while, actually), but I supp=
ose it
> >> might drag some stuff off of the disk and misbehave.
> >>
> >> But the system boots, presumably after the countdown that I can't see,=
I just
> >> have to SSH in from a different machine to tweak things. Just no scre=
en at
> >> all past the GELI encrypted disk password prompt (and some usual noise=
as
> >> it complains about some padding that I've seen forever).
> >>
> >> I used to just upgrade the boot loader around ZFS upgrades, and I have=
n't
> >> done that since OpenZFS got merged. I just got overly conservative th=
ere
> >> and may have missed the "all clear" for all combinations of ZFS and th=
e
> >> bootloader recognizing them.
> >>
> >> The git logs in /usr/src aren't time-sequential, so maybe I shouldn't =
trust
> >> those dates above (I pulled it ~Jan 3rd and let it compile overnight),=
but
> >> I'm going to repull all the sources and recompile, just in case. I mi=
ght
> >> have initiall pulled it during the git conversion and maybe it is conf=
used.
> >>
> >
> > hi!
> >
> > Yes, it is known defect, and I=E2=80=99m searching for cause; the issue=
is with /boot/loader and BIOS text mode (unfortunately I have the usual =
=E2=80=98but it is working for me=E2=80=99 case). For workaround, you can t=
ry to either: 1 (blind) press esc to get out of boot menu, then enter: vbe =
on; another option is to add hw.vga.textmode=3D=E2=80=9C0=E2=80=9D to loade=
r.conf.
> >
> > Sorry for confusion,
> > toomas
> >
>
> the 58661b3ba9eb should hopefully fix the loader text mode issue, it woul=
d be cool if you can verify:)
>
> thanks,
> toomas
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