Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:51:58 -0700 From: Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org> To: Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> Subject: Re: Nothing can boot anymore - video issues Message-ID: <C16EE50D-96D5-4F7F-89D9-D30B8D969260@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1428506302.5499.10.camel@hardenedbsd.org> References: <CAExMvskLeBVN1fh7kiiHdNWbOMDNnhNVUGZX0K9uk5VB7EK56A@mail.gmail.com> <369848B3-73AB-4A71-9597-9ED098C7EF64@me.com> <1428343182.6806.3.camel@hardenedbsd.org> <1428352517.6806.10.camel@hardenedbsd.org> <6D9FB562-9899-4180-A07A-232EEE2A09DB@FreeBSD.org> <1428506302.5499.10.camel@hardenedbsd.org>
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> On Apr 8, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 16:55 -0700, Devin Teske wrote: >> >>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 13:59 -0400, Shawn Webb wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2015-04-05 at 12:07 -0700, Rui Paulo wrote: >>>>> On Apr 5, 2015, at 09:11, Shawn Webb >>>>> <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> So I just updated my laptop and desktop to a recent HEAD. Both >>>>>> machines >>>>>> boot using gptzfsboot. The boot spinner shows, then when it's >>>>>> supposed to >>>>>> transition to the Beastie logo screen, the monitor funks out. >>>>>> Booting never >>>>>> finishes. Below is a link to a picture of my laptop. >>>>>> >>>>>> http://imgur.com/l3mLDBX >>>>> >>>>> Try reverting the Forth changes. That's all that comes to mind. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Rui Paulo >>>> >>>> I'm going through commit-by-commit from April 3rd to March 31st, >>>> which >>>> will take a big chunk of time. It's really weird that no one else >>>> has >>>> reported this since even my VirtualBox VMs have this same issue. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Shawn >>> >>> I've figured out the commit that caused the breakage. Looks like the >>> boot Forth changes are pretty bad. The commit that caused the >>> breakage, >>> as far as I can tell is, r280974. Reverting that and the two commits >>> above that revision regarding sys/boot/forth allowed me to boot >>> again. >>> >>> Now the boot screen looks like this: http://imgur.com/I9SVHfT >>> >>> I can now boot, but as you see, the boot screen's messed up. >>> >>> >> >> >> Why the screen looks that way (no brand and no logo): >> You were caught in a small window of broken-ness. >> >> >> Window was between: >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=280933 >> and >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=281002 >> >> >> A window of approximately 2 days. >> >> >> As for why the screen got wonky … well… your comp and my >> comp don’t agree on ANSI sequences. I’ve reverted the offending >> changes so that we may once-again agree on ANSI codes. ;D > > It now appears that the problem was specific to HardenedBSD: we had a > custom loader_version setting in sys/boot/forth/loader.conf. I'm unsure > which commit caused the breakage, but now having a custom loader_version > will break booting. > Thanks for narrowing it further. Let me do some additional testing and I’ll report back what I find. — Devin
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