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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2018 23:28:43 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, ed@freebsd.org,  Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vt(4)-related hang of 11.2
Message-ID:  <5C094E3B.5090800@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <5C094A7C.1090608@grosbein.net>
References:  <5C092989.6000007@grosbein.net> <CAJ1Oi8HgwXJMPz7hWJMXrAmzKUnAWfgitZ1fmgbFMV_hv8=B7g@mail.gmail.com> <5C0945AF.3060604@grosbein.net> <5C0947BF.9090500@grosbein.net> <5C094A7C.1090608@grosbein.net>

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>>>> In most cases it's just wrong info passed from UEFI firmware about FB.
>>>> try to hardcode FrameBuffer params into vt_efb driver, to know exatly.
>>>
>>> Forgot to add importand detail: it boots and works with vt(4) using FreeBSD 11.1.
>>>
>>
>> r322258 is known working stable/11 revison that booted such a system with default console just fine;
>> stable/11 r338465 hangs.
> 
> Looking at the diff, I see I should try hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1 that stable/11 got in between...
> I'll try next day and respond.

hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1 solved the problem and now it boots with vt(4) just fine.

The question is: why it hangs and does not boot "blind" without this setting?
Can it panic maybe?

This box has no COM-port at glance (for serial console) but dmidecode reports it has...




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