Nanobsd_vga using serial in boot loader?
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I'll have to run some tests to confirm this myself, but I have made quite a few fixes to NanoBSD+VGA over the last couple weeks helping a customer get images going on their new hardware, and it works for them now on their hardware, and for me in a VM (though it's VMware Workstation 8.x).
When you get it booted up, what do the following files contain?
/boot.config
/boot/loader.conf
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Do your customer's machine and your VM have a serial port present by any chance? Like I said, it's only really a problem (other than not being able to interact with the boot loader) if there isn't one.
I'll try and check the contents of the files you mentioned later today.
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No, my VM has no serial port, and the customer device did not have one either (which is why they wanted nanobsd+vga)
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OK, so using the pfSense-2.1-BETA0-1g-amd64-nanobsd_vga-20120911-1249 image, this is what I get:
/boot.config – does not exist
/boot/loader.conf -- empty
/etc/ttys -- the only entry with status "on" is this: ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
However, since I'm not even getting to BTX (and the kernel never even gets loaded in the first place) without a serial port, does /etc/ttys even matter? -
Also, I'm just realizing my terminology was off; it's the boot block that hangs, not the boot loader. I.e., this is what I get on the serial port:
1 pfSense 2 pfSense F6 PXE Boot: 1 -
So, I played around with this some more, and I think the problem is that the image uses the wrong boot block (boot0sio instead of boot0). "gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 [device]" fixes the problem immediately.
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Yeah that's where my mind was heading next (though with boot0cfg instead of gpart)
There's probably a case missing in the image code that isn't excluding the nano+vga images from getting it. -
just committed a potential fix to the build process. New images to test will be up in a couple hours.
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Should these have been posted by now? The snapshot page doesn't seem to list anything…
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Should be up shortly.
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Sweet, problem solved. Thanks much for your help!