Re: boot loader blank screen

> On 5. Jan 2021, at 00:59, Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com> wrote:
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>> On 4. Jan 2021, at 18:30, Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com <mailto:tsoome_at_me.com>> wrote:
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>>> On 4. Jan 2021, at 18:22, John Kennedy <warlock_at_phouka.net <mailto:warlock_at_phouka.net>> wrote:
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>>> 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!
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>> 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.
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>> Sorry for confusion,
>> toomas
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> the 58661b3ba9eb should hopefully fix the loader text mode issue, it would be cool if you can verify:)
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> 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,
toomas