Re: boot loader blank screen

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 14:40:32 -0800
This issue(s) seem to need a variety of reporting contexts
for coverage. My coverage at this point is more of a
check if something reverted for my type of context but when
it started my context was a failure case.

I'm no longer testing a context based on the earlier patch
(before its commital) but now caught up to recently enough
on the ThreadRipper to have screen.textmode be the intended
means of control:

# ~/fbsd-based-on-what-freebsd-main.sh mm-src
b1ea63e2e3c92d1346af067f5cf609e3e062f8b9
CommitDate: 2021-01-06 13:18:37 -0800
fa0b97dbe6e1 b1ea63e2e3c9 (HEAD -> mm-src) mm-src snapshot for mm's patched build in git context.
FreeBSD FBSDFHUGE 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT mm-src-c255637-gfa0b97dbe6e1 GENERIC-NODBG  amd64 amd64 1300133 1300133

For this vintage of my context . . .

screen.textmode="1" works. (With the huge, blocky font on the 1920x1200
display. But nothing significant about that is recently changed.)

screen.textmode="0" works, including with screen.font="8x16" . There
is a difference, in that it displays some material at the very beginning
that it was not displaying since the recent problems started (until now
or so). This initial material displays in screen.textmode="1" style before
the display switches to the screen.textmode="0" style of display for alter
output. (I'm not complaining, just noting the visible sequence.)

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Mark Millard
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Received on Wed Jan 06 2021 - 21:40:44 UTC

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