> On 24 апр. 2020 г., at 13:55, Eugene Grosbein <[email protected]> wrote: > > 24.04.2020 11:26, Igor Pokrovsky пишет: > >> Hello all, >> >> I haven’t been using FreeBSD since 8-STABLE times. Recently I tried to >> install latest 12-STABLE on my old computer. >> But even during initial boot up loader hangs. Eventually I was able to >> proceed with installation after replacing loader in >> the installation disk with one found in my old system 8-STABLE. The same >> happened when I tried zfs on root partition. >> >> I used MBR partition on PATA hard drive. Motherboard was ASUS A8V (Athlon64). > > Modern FreeBSD versions use newer vt(4) console driver that defaults to pixel > mode rendering > and depends on correctness of ACPI tables of motherboard's firmware much more > than old syscons(4) console driver that is still available. > You should try escaping to the loader prompt first and run these commands: > > set kern.vty=sc > boot > > Try it and see if it helps. If so, don't forget adding "kern.vty=sc" to > /boot/loader.conf > after installation. >
Yes, I tried sc, but it doesnt help too. I attached my drive to Promise RAID controller and system boots just fine now. Probably the cause is in hardware, failed controller was made by VIA. ip _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
