Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 00:46:08 +0200 From: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> To: John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, chrisb <chrisb@fastmail.net>, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: boot loader blank screen Message-ID: <831788F9-F97F-4A02-A6F9-AE05219DA2E9@me.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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> On 5. Jan 2021, at 00:59, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote: > > > >> On 4. Jan 2021, at 18:30, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com <mailto:tsoome@me.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 4. Jan 2021, at 18:22, John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net <mailto:warlock@phouka.net>> wrote: >>> >>> This is a little weird. >>> >>> Somewhere between 13.0-g2ff66a915526 (Dec 30th) and -gd03fd8ede2c4 (Dec 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 suppose 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 screen 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 haven't >>> done that since OpenZFS got merged. I just got overly conservative there >>> and may have missed the "all clear" for all combinations of ZFS and the >>> 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 might >>> have initiall pulled it during the git conversion and maybe it is confused. >>> >> >> hi! >> >> Yes, it is known defect, and I’m searching for cause; the issue is with /boot/loader and BIOS text mode (unfortunately I have the usual ‘but it is working for me’ case). For workaround, you can try to either: 1 (blind) press esc to get out of boot menu, then enter: vbe on; another option is to add hw.vga.textmode=“0” to loader.conf. >> >> Sorry for confusion, >> toomas >> > > the 58661b3ba9eb should hopefully fix the loader text mode issue, it would be cool if you can verify:) > > thanks, > toomas I think, I got it fixed (at least idwer did confirm for his system, thanks). If you can test this patch: http://148-52-235-80.sta.estpak.ee/0001-loader-rewrite-font-install.patch <http://148-52-235-80.sta.estpak.ee/0001-loader-rewrite-font-install.patch>; it would be really nice. thanks, toomashelp
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