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To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD i386 guest doesn't see console...
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Hi John-Mark,

>>   It may be possible that this file isn't being populated in your image,
>> or being read in by bhyveload.
>
> show from loader:
> OK show
> LINES=24
> boot_serial=1
> console=userboot
> currdev=disk0p3:
> interpret=OK
> kernelname=/boot/kernel/kernel
> loaddev=disk0p3:
> prompt=${interpret}
> smbios.bios.vendor=BHYVE
>
> Any ideas?

  Looks like device.hints isn't being sourced in by the loader (aka 
bhyveload in this case). This is done on a stock system from:

% grep device.hints /boot/defaults/loader.conf
loader_conf_files="/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf 
/boot/loader.conf.local"

  Any chance on your system that you've overridden loader_conf_files, or 
are using a custom setup for loader config ?

later,

Peter.