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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Indeed, I can't see any way to unset a hint. But you could set it to something else. Or in this case if it won't boot with the uarts setup at the standard locations you could disable them entirely:

      hint.uart.0.disabled="1"
      hint.uart.1.disabled="1"
      

      Steve

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        cgi2099 @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10

        This is what I do to get it to boot initially and then edit the device.hints for future reboots but it doesn't stick through upgrades/updates.

        Here is the link I found to help me to get it to bootup the first time. It was a head scratcher for a little while:

        https://www.neelc.org/posts/hp-t740-freebsd/

        I was just checking to see if there was a way to not have to do this through upgrades. I'm not even sure what those are for lol

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Ok, well I would try:

          hint.uart.0.at="0"
          hint.uart.1.at="0"
          

          But setting it disabled there is probably just as good. There is probably some resource conflict caused by the serial ports on the device for some reason.

          Steve

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            cgi2099 @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10

            Yes these work for first boot if you interrupt no problem, they just don't persist without commenting out the above lines and those don't persist through updates/upgrades.

            Just a pain because this is setup in a closet without a keyboard and monitor, so there is no way to update/upgrade without taking it out of the closet etc...

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Right which is why you need to put them in /boot/loader.conf.local which is maintained across an upgrade.

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                cgi2099 @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10

                Ohhh okay, took me a while to get there lol

                So just add:

                hint.uart.0.disabled="1"
                hint.uart.1.disabled="1"
                

                to the loader.conf.local and all should be good?

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  You'll have to test to know if that works. Be sure to have console access in case it doesn't boot! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                    cgi2099 @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10

                    I will give it a shot this evening

                    Thank you so much :)

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                      cgi2099 @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10
                      This did work!

                      Thank you so much :)

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Great to hear. ๐Ÿ‘

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                          A Former User @stephenw10
                          last edited by

                          @stephenw10 said in boot/device.hints:

                          Right which is why you need to put them in /boot/loader.conf.local which is maintained across an upgrade.

                          Would you please so friendly and take a minute on top to this file called /boot/loader.conf.local please.

                          If I write something in, like the thread opener his line,
                          and I have several different line to put in for several things
                          and I want comment this line for what they are standing,
                          how to do this without problems? as an example:

                          set CPU Frequent high up to 1400 MHz
                          hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
                          hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
                          hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled=1
                          
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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            The octothorpe # indicates a comment so you could do:

                            # CPU Power and Frequency settings
                            set CPU Frequent high up to 1400 MHz
                            hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
                            hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
                            hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled=1
                            
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                              A Former User @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10
                              Thank you!

                              Here is none active and;

                              # set CPU Frequent high up to 1400 MHz
                              #hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
                              #hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
                              #hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled=1
                              

                              here are all active, is this rigt?

                              # set CPU Frequent high up to 1400 MHz
                              hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
                              hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
                              hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled=1
                              

                              I will try out this for my new installation on CP Engines APU to tune the CPU is able going something between
                              1000Mhz and 1400Mhz against default 600Mhz to 1000Mhz.

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                That's correct.

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                                  A Former User @stephenw10
                                  last edited by

                                  @stephenw10

                                  Thank you very much for that information.

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