Re: boot loader blank screen

On 16/01/2021 12:21, Johan Hendriks wrote:
> On 15/01/2021 20:06, Johan Hendriks wrote:
>>
>> On 15/01/2021 14:51, Toomas Soome wrote:
>>> Could you please check latest current now?:)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Toomas
>>>
>>>> On 13. Jan 2021, at 20:13, Santiago Martinez <sm_at_codenetworks.net> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, +1 on this, i still have issue on a supermicro.
>>>>
>>>> Santi
>>>>
>>>>> On 1/8/21 8:11 PM, John Kennedy wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 02:19:12PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote:
>>>>>>   I saw your commit of 99870c70bac7 (loader: rewrite 
>>>>>> vidc_install_font),
>>>>>> 31c2bcad7e44 (loader: remove left over call to unsetenv()), and 
>>>>>> belatedly
>>>>>> babda0952f8355a89b3241d5e8943c7da0fa4f6b (hw.vga.textmode -> 
>>>>>> screen.textmode).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Didn't fix the blank screen, and I thought the hw.vga.textmode 
>>>>>> workaround
>>>>>> had broken until I read that commit fully (will try it next reboot).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   At main-c255633-g3efe9b3e77c3 right now (also past your 
>>>>>> f1829643c476.
>>>>>   At main-c255756-g40903394bf48, still no love for my system yet.  
>>>>> FYI,
>>>>> screen.textmode=0 continued to work around the issue, as expected.
>>>>>
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>>>>
>> I found out my desktop pc that i updated today also has a blank screen.
>> In my case setting the following helps
>>
>> screen.textmode=1
>> vbe_max_resolution=800x600
>>
>> And thank you for that lovely boot screen and awesome font, very neat!
>>
>> My release is main-c255921-gec2700e01532: Wed Jan 13 12:32:28 CET 2021
>>
>> This is on a old intel core 2
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>> FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #24 main-c255921-gec2700e01532: Wed Jan 13 
>> 12:32:28 CET 2021
>> root_at_srv-01.thuis.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/KRNL amd64
>> FreeBSD clang version 11.0.1 (git_at_github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git 
>> llvmorg-11.0.1-rc2-0-g43ff75f2c3f)
>> VT(vbefb): resolution 1280x1024
>> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E6550  _at_ 2.33GHz (2327.55-MHz 
>> K8-class CPU)
>>   Origin="GenuineIntel"  Id=0x6fb  Family=0x6  Model=0xf Stepping=11
>> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> 
>>
>> Features2=0xe3fd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM> 
>>
>>   AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
>>   AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>>   VT-x: (disabled in BIOS) HLT,PAUSE
>>   TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
>>
>>
> I found out that i have this line in my /boot/loader.conf file.
> loader_logo="orb"
>
> if i leave that in, than only this setting works and only the text 
> based boot screen works.
> screen.textmode=1
>
> I then can not use the vbe_max_resolution="800x600" setting as i get 
> no screen (in the top it looks like i have some small consoles of 
> about 20 pixels high in all collors.)
> If i remover the loader_logo="orb" line, then i can use 
> vbe_max_resolution="800x600" and i see the console but only in 16 
> colors i think.
>
> I will rebuild to the current of this moment and see if the latest works.
>
I just did an update to FreeBSD jhost002.thuis.local 13.0-ALPHA1 FreeBSD 
13.0-ALPHA1 #26 main-c256002-gfe258f23ef36: Sat Jan 16 12:25:49 CET 2021 
root_at_srv-01.thuis.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/KRNL amd64

For me all works now on my desktop pc.

With an empty /boot/loader.conf all is fine, it boots to the text based 
screen.
Setting vbe_max_resolution= resolution give me that beautiful boot page, 
thank you very much for that. I always get laugh about by my Linux 
colleages about the FreeBSD boot screen, those days are over ;-). Also 
the font for me is very pleasant to see.

Thank you for all your work on this.

regards Johan