Enable VGA on Serial Memstick install

fibrewire

@maevoureik https://www.ebay.com/itm/143542942038

No need to flash the BIOS, the present one works fine.

I believe I used Balena Etcher to write the serial console image.

As an aside, if you interrupt the boot process when the serial console first connects then you can boot the kernel.old on a machine that has been upgraded. Everything will work as long as you don't reboot. There are some notes above for doing that, and notes for making the kernel.old permanent elsewhere in the forum until you can resolve your upgrade issue later.

jockum

I had the same problem (APEI ??? Error spam) with XTM850.
Resolved by adding:
debug.acpi.disabled="apei"
to /boot/loader.conf
See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248746

By the way, how do you adjust your fan speeds with XTM850? Tried WGXepc64 but not supported.

stephenw10

Nice find! That seems to have resurrected my XTM800 too.

There are fan control values in the BIOS. It doesn't go super quiet though, it's a power hungry box.

WGXepc should detect the hardware but I never found a way to set the LED on that board (despite looking for a long time!) and the fan control in the BIOS was 'good enough' for me. You do need a VGA console to access it though which is a PITA. Might be possible to add it.

Steve