Remove vidconsole from console settings for apu2

xbipin

can some1 patch the pfsense code such that the /boot/loader.conf sets console="comconsole" as default for apu2 board rather than console="comconsole,vidconsole" coz when vidconsole is present in that string then the welcome message on serial console comes broken making it impossible to boot into single user mode

doktornotor

Hmmm?


PCEngines apu2
coreboot build 20170228
4080 MB ECC DRAM

SeaBIOS (version rel-1.10.0.1)

Press F10 key now for boot menu

Booting from Hard Disk...

F1  pfSense

F6 PXE
Boot:  F1
/boot/config: -S115200 -h
Consoles: serial port
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 638kB/3668660kB available memory

FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@buildbot2.netgate.com, Mon Aug 21 06:57:44 CDT 2017)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
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 +============Welcome to pfSense===========+
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 |  5\. [K]ernel: kernel (1 of 2)           |               \        /
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/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x1753f58 data=0xab8eb8+0x4c8c68 syms=[0x8+0x183bd0+0x8+0x183b45]
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xbipin

whats in ur /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local

doktornotor


autoboot_delay="3"
boot_serial="YES"
console="comconsole"
comconsole_speed="115200"
hw.usb.no_pf="1"

I don't have any /boot/loader.conf.local there.

IOW, suspect you have used a wrong image for the box (the VGA one). Definitely the case if you see


Consoles: internal video/keyboard  serial port

on boot.

xbipin

no im on the serial image and as far as i remember i had filed a bug request at the time i found out this issue and i think some1 patched something at that time, let me go find what the patch was

jimp

It already sets it that way for detected serial only platforms.

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc#L1192

And it looks like someone already set the apu2 to be considered serial only:

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc#L1128

That code is there on 2.4 and 2.3.4

xbipin

yup this was the change i guess done at that time