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      mvikman
      last edited by mvikman

      Just installed the recommended patches and happened to have a monitor hooked up, noticed that the boot menu looked weird...
      Looks like upgrade to 23.01/FreeBSD 14 changed something that caused the console graphics to change.

      2.6 CE and Plus up to 22.05 looked like normal, now it looks like this:
      20230318_181346 (Small).jpg

      Tried booting from 2.6CE install usb, that looked fine
      20230318_181302 (Small).jpg

      The computer in Dell Optiplex 7040, using integrated graphics (HDMI)

      I do have a Qotom minipc, that still has Plus 22.05, haven't tested if the same happens if I upgrade it to 23.01.

      pfSense Plus 24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
      Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF
      Core i5-6500, 8GB RAM, 2x 240GB SSD (ZFS Mirror)
      HPE 561T (X540-AT2), 2-port 10Gb RJ45
      HPE 562SFP+ (X710-DA2), 2-port 10Gb SFP+

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        mvikman
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        Booted the system to 22.05 with an older boot environment and the boot menu is back to normal.
        Re-checked the computer BIOS and noticed that it's using UEFI (didn't remember that)

        Found this thread from FreeBSD forums
        https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/broken-boot-menu-layout-since-update-to-13-0.79834/

        I'm guessing the the UEFI bootloader is also the culprit with my problem...
        Though in my system, it looks that the date of the /efi/boot/BOOTx64.efi in the EFI partition is newer than the /boot/loader.efi

        Not that the messed up graphics in the boot menu really matter, but I'd rather have it fixed id possible 😁
        Does the 22.05 to 23.01 upgrade also upgrade UEFI bootloader?
        Maybe clean install on FreeBSD 14 based pfSense would fix it?

        pfSense Plus 24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
        Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF
        Core i5-6500, 8GB RAM, 2x 240GB SSD (ZFS Mirror)
        HPE 561T (X540-AT2), 2-port 10Gb RJ45
        HPE 562SFP+ (X710-DA2), 2-port 10Gb SFP+

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          rcoleman-netgate Netgate @mvikman
          last edited by

          @mvikman said in 23.01 messed up boot menu graphics:

          Does the 22.05 to 23.01 upgrade also upgrade UEFI bootloader?

          Yes.

          Maybe clean install on FreeBSD 14 based pfSense would fix it?

          Maybe but you can't clean install pfSense with fBSD 14 on your system.

          Does it really matter in the end? No, the console appearance is strictly a cosmetic issue.

          Ryan
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            mvikman @rcoleman-netgate
            last edited by

            @rcoleman-netgate said in 23.01 messed up boot menu graphics:

            Does it really matter in the end? No, the console appearance is strictly a cosmetic issue.

            No, it doesn't really matter as I rarely see it anyway, but I hate things that aren't "as they should be" even when nobody sees them, but I know they are there... But that's just my head XD

            pfSense Plus 24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
            Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF
            Core i5-6500, 8GB RAM, 2x 240GB SSD (ZFS Mirror)
            HPE 561T (X540-AT2), 2-port 10Gb RJ45
            HPE 562SFP+ (X710-DA2), 2-port 10Gb SFP+

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              ebcdic @rcoleman-netgate
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              @rcoleman-netgate said in 23.01 messed up boot menu graphics:

              No, the console appearance is strictly a cosmetic issue.

              I don't quite agree.

              I'd much prefer the boot sequence and login prompt to consist only of plain ascii characters. Why? So that if I'm recording the console output for debugging purposes, I can look at it in an editor without endless escape sequences obscuring the important stuff.

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                rcoleman-netgate Netgate @ebcdic
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                @ebcdic I understand that but I must point out that the double-pipe is not a "plain ASCII character"

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                  ebcdic @rcoleman-netgate
                  last edited by

                  @rcoleman-netgate said in 23.01 messed up boot menu graphics:

                  @ebcdic I understand that but I must point out that the double-pipe is not a "plain ASCII character"

                  Just so, I'd like to get rid of them!

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                    mvikman @rcoleman-netgate
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                    @rcoleman-netgate
                    Am I correct that the i915 kmod video driver would not help with this as it not loaded at the time boot menu shows?

                    Btw I tested booting 2.7CE (feb 15th build) from usb-drive and it had the visually correct boot menu.
                    For proper testing, I would need to swap in another ssd and make a test install with 2.7CE, but I don't think I'll waste time at that...

                    pfSense Plus 24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                    Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF
                    Core i5-6500, 8GB RAM, 2x 240GB SSD (ZFS Mirror)
                    HPE 561T (X540-AT2), 2-port 10Gb RJ45
                    HPE 562SFP+ (X710-DA2), 2-port 10Gb SFP+

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