Re: UEFI GOP: screen goes blank during boot after loader is finished

From: Kyle Evans <kevans_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:33:30 -0600
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 4:30 PM Kyle Evans <kevans_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 4:23 PM Subbsd <subbsd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 1:05 AM Subbsd <subbsd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 12:21 AM Rebecca Cran <rebecca_at_bluestop.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On November 14, 2018 at 2:18:04 PM, Subbsd (subbsd_at_gmail.com) wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> My current host: FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r340319 and the problem is
> > > >> still present.
> > > >
> > > > Rod was asking about the guest OS version, not the host though.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > I apologize, it seemed to me that I wrote earlier) Guest version:
> > > https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-amd64-20181101-r339979-disc1.iso.xz
> >
> > Hm, it seems the problem is 'boot_serial' which is sets to YES by default in gop
> >
> > set boot_serial=NO
> > boot
> >
> > solve this issue
>
> Huh? This is perhaps going to be a stupid question, but where is
> boot_serial=YES getting set? Loader will not set it by itself and UEFI
> doesn't respect /boot.config, so this must be explicitly set in
> /boot/loader.conf or /boot/defaults/loader.conf, but it's not clear to
> me what's putting it there.

http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/freebsd-head/usr.sbin/bhyveload/bhyveload.c#832
is the only place I can see immediately that this might be happening,
but do UEFI boots go through bhyveload? I'm ignorant here.
Received on Wed Nov 14 2018 - 21:33:45 UTC

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