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    Edited console on video, full console on serial on 22.05

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      Vollans
      last edited by Vollans

      Hi, I’ve selected serial and VGA console, and set VGA as primary console:

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      The serial console gets the full output when booting, all the way through the boot process.

      The VGA console pauses here at the CPU information:

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      The serial console continues on its merry way through all the services loading, before both the serial and VGA (actually HDMI but pfSense calls it VGA) give the menu screen, and both consoles are available again.

      Primary is set as VGA in pfSense, but the screen shows Serial as primary.

      /boot/loader.conf shows:

      
      boot_multicons="YES"
      boot_serial="YES"
      console="efi,comconsole"
      comconsole_speed="115200"
      
      

      Any idea what’s going on?

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        rcoleman-netgate Netgate @Vollans
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        @vollans What hardware is this on?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          It's a known issue with EFI consoles: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13080

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            Vollans @rcoleman-netgate
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            @rcoleman-netgate said in Edited console on video, full console on serial on 22.05:

            @vollans What hardware is this on?

            It's a little 4-port no-name Intel N5105 special from Aliexpress.

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