Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:40:56 +0100 From: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot loader blank screen Message-ID: <47aa1871-320b-f1ea-fd00-258a5d3649fe@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c8470083-b2f5-4df8-1aca-f21b8616e4b6@gmail.com> References: <358513ba-699f-8af8-ed4e-a08fd1012db0@codenetworks.net> <F9A68339-4C8D-45C2-9B17-B432E122785F@me.com> <b49a7816-533c-67ed-d263-2551a2a04de8@gmail.com> <c8470083-b2f5-4df8-1aca-f21b8616e4b6@gmail.com>
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On 16/01/2021 12:21, Johan Hendriks wrote: > On 15/01/2021 20:06, Johan Hendriks wrote: >> >> On 15/01/2021 14:51, Toomas Soome wrote: >>> Could you please check latest current now?:) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Toomas >>> >>>> On 13. Jan 2021, at 20:13, Santiago Martinez <sm@codenetworks.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, +1 on this, i still have issue on a supermicro. >>>> >>>> Santi >>>> >>>>> On 1/8/21 8:11 PM, John Kennedy wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 02:19:12PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote: >>>>>> I saw your commit of 99870c70bac7 (loader: rewrite >>>>>> vidc_install_font), >>>>>> 31c2bcad7e44 (loader: remove left over call to unsetenv()), and >>>>>> belatedly >>>>>> babda0952f8355a89b3241d5e8943c7da0fa4f6b (hw.vga.textmode -> >>>>>> screen.textmode). >>>>>> >>>>>> Didn't fix the blank screen, and I thought the hw.vga.textmode >>>>>> workaround >>>>>> had broken until I read that commit fully (will try it next reboot). >>>>>> >>>>>> At main-c255633-g3efe9b3e77c3 right now (also past your >>>>>> f1829643c476. >>>>> At main-c255756-g40903394bf48, still no love for my system yet. >>>>> FYI, >>>>> screen.textmode=0 continued to work around the issue, as expected. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>>> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>> >>>> >> I found out my desktop pc that i updated today also has a blank screen. >> In my case setting the following helps >> >> screen.textmode=1 >> vbe_max_resolution=800x600 >> >> And thank you for that lovely boot screen and awesome font, very neat! >> >> My release is main-c255921-gec2700e01532: Wed Jan 13 12:32:28 CET 2021 >> >> This is on a old intel core 2 >> Copyright (c) 1992-2021 The FreeBSD Project. >> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 >> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. >> FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #24 main-c255921-gec2700e01532: Wed Jan 13 >> 12:32:28 CET 2021 >> root@srv-01.thuis.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/KRNL amd64 >> FreeBSD clang version 11.0.1 (git@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git >> llvmorg-11.0.1-rc2-0-g43ff75f2c3f) >> VT(vbefb): resolution 1280x1024 >> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz (2327.55-MHz >> K8-class CPU) >> Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x6fb Family=0x6 Model=0xf Stepping=11 >> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> >> >> Features2=0xe3fd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM> >> >> AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> >> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> >> VT-x: (disabled in BIOS) HLT,PAUSE >> TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics >> >> > I found out that i have this line in my /boot/loader.conf file. > loader_logo="orb" > > if i leave that in, than only this setting works and only the text > based boot screen works. > screen.textmode=1 > > I then can not use the vbe_max_resolution="800x600" setting as i get > no screen (in the top it looks like i have some small consoles of > about 20 pixels high in all collors.) > If i remover the loader_logo="orb" line, then i can use > vbe_max_resolution="800x600" and i see the console but only in 16 > colors i think. > > I will rebuild to the current of this moment and see if the latest works. > I just did an update to FreeBSD jhost002.thuis.local 13.0-ALPHA1 FreeBSD 13.0-ALPHA1 #26 main-c256002-gfe258f23ef36: Sat Jan 16 12:25:49 CET 2021 root@srv-01.thuis.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/KRNL amd64 For me all works now on my desktop pc. With an empty /boot/loader.conf all is fine, it boots to the text based screen. Setting vbe_max_resolution= resolution give me that beautiful boot page, thank you very much for that. I always get laugh about by my Linux colleages about the FreeBSD boot screen, those days are over ;-). Also the font for me is very pleasant to see. Thank you for all your work on this. regards Johan
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