Re: boot loader blank screen

Alan Somers asomers at freebsd.org wrote on
Sat Jan 16 20:15:52 UTC 2021 :

> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 8:39 AM John Kennedy <warlock at phouka.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 03:51:38PM +0200, Toomas Soome wrote:
> > > Could you please check latest current now?:)
> >
> >   Success!  With main-c255999-g0bc776f3da70, I've been able to comment out
> > the
> > screen.textmode=0 (so, back to the default like I originally was).
> >
> 
> Sort of!  Now textmode works again.  But the hw.vga.textmode setting is
> ignored.  Instead, I'm always in text mode; I can't boot into graphics
> mode.  This is at  main-c256008-gde57c3d88258 on an Ivy Bridge system.

Looks like you did not notice the change to screen.textmode :

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commit babda0952f8355a89b3241d5e8943c7da0fa4f6b
Author:     Toomas Soome <tsoome at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-01-06 11:46:34 +0000
Commit:     Toomas Soome <tsoome at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-01-06 12:38:55 +0000

    loader: instead of hw.vga.textmode, use screen.textmode
    
    hw.vga.textmode is directing VT VGA backend to use text mode.
    
    The default screen mode for BIOS loader is text, and default
    screen mode for VT VGA backend is graphics (unless we are running on
    hypervisor or hw.vga.textmode is set to 1). Using hw.vga.textmode
    for loader does remove possibility to have graphical mode VT VGA with
    text mode loader.
    
    screen.textmode can have possible values "0" to disable text mode,
    and "1" to set text mode.
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