pfSense won't boot unless I manually interrupt the boot process and change the console to VGA
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Correct
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Do you see a console type option in the gui in Sys > Advanced > Admin Access?
You may have initially installed from the memstick serial image accidentally.
Steve
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I do, and I have tried selecting VGA console as primary but it doesn't take effect.
Yes this was my concern after having spent many hours troubleshooting and trying various things, so I downloaded and installed the VGA memstick image (triple checked), but there's no difference.
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Setting a value there should change what is in loader.conf, do you see that?
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There's no difference in /boot/loader.conf when changing from VGA console to serial console (in System->
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Hmm, check in /conf. Do you have an
enableserial_forcefile?If you do what exactly is that hardware?
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There's no
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Hmm, setting that line to 'video' does exactly the same thing as using
set console=vidconsoleat the prompt. But you say only one of those things works which makes no sense.What other console options do you have there? Is it a UEFI BIOS?
If it was booting as expected before losing power though it's possible you have some filesystem damage. The easiest thing here is [probably going to be reinstalling clean.
Steve
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No other console options apart from serial and video.
Yes it's an UEFI BIOS.
This device has been running pfsense for a while and with earlier versions it worked fine after power loss. At some point after upgrading it broke. No idea in which version or when, but this is a clean 2.6 installation and it doesn't work for some reason.
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Hmm, how much older was the previous installation? It might have been installed, and therefore booting, legacy and now the clean install is UEFI and failing.
You could try reinstalling as legacy BIOS.Steve
