SOLVED: atkbd0 : [GIANT LOCKED]

[JustAnotherUser]

On a non-branded mini-pc: boot froze with the message:

atkbd0 : [GIANT LOCKED]

SOLUTION (that worked for me):
At boot loader prompt, choose to configure boot options (option 7) and try:
unset hint.uart.1.at
boot

If this works, you can permanently comment the

hint.uart.1.at="isa"

...entry in /boot/device.hints

[fireodo]

@justanotheruser said in SOLVED: atkbd0 : [GIANT LOCKED]:

On a non-branded mini-pc: boot froze with the message:
atkbd0 : [GIANT LOCKED]

Some BIOSes provide a setting to boot without keyboard attached - maybe that mini-pc has a similar setting?

Regards,
fireodo

[laschevskiy.oleg]

@JustAnotherUser
After the System Update from 2.6.0 to 2.7.0, this change is reset, and it must be re-made. It is necessary to make changes during the first reboot after the update, as described above, and then after loading, edit the line 22 in /boot/device.hints like this #hint.uart.1.at="isa"

I use Dell Wise 3040 as a home router - I really like it in this role, but it has the above problem when installing pfSense.

Onboard Ethernet on RTL8168/8111 as WAN, USB Gigabit Ethernet RTL8153 as LAN because RTL8153 don't support to modify ("spoof") the MAC address to use it as WAN, WiFi WLAN RT5370 as OPT1.

[heper]

@laschevskiy-oleg said in SOLVED: atkbd0 : [GIANT LOCKED]:

, this change is reset, and it must be re-made.

yes, you should/could unset this variable in /boot/loader.conf.local - the hints file will be overwritten by updates / the loader.conf.local file does not get overwritten

see: https://forum.netgate.com/post/1059406

[stephenw10]

Yup you can put hints in loader.conf.local and they will survive an update.

[laschevskiy.oleg]

Thanks to everyone for the help!

I created the file /boot/loader.conf.local and placed a hint #hint.uart.1.at="isa":

echo '#hint.uart.1.at="isa"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local

I'll see the result at the next update.

[heper]

@laschevskiy-oleg that won't do anything
Hashtags comment things out...
Read the post I linked. Previously

[stephenw10]

Yes you can't comment something that isn't set there!

You probably want to just disable uart1 like:

hint.uart.1.disabled="1"