On 2021-Jan-5, at 14:46, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote: > On 5. Jan 2021, at 00:59, Toomas Soome <tso...@me.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 4. Jan 2021, at 18:30, Toomas Soome <tso...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 4. Jan 2021, at 18:22, John Kennedy <warl...@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 it > would be really nice. >
[I got to this sooner than I originally expected.] With the patch applied, hw.vga.textmode="1" finally displayed correctly for the ThreadRipper 1950X context that I had originally reported. (The only amd64 FreeBSD context that I've access to.) Thanks, Mark === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar) _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
