Hello all, I haven?t been using FreeBSD since 8-STABLE times. Recently I tried to install latest 12-STABLE on my old computer. But even during initial boot up loader hangs. Eventually I was able to proceed with installation after replacing loader in the installation disk with one found in my old system 8-STABLE. The same happened when I tried zfs on root partition. I used MBR partition on PATA hard drive. Motherboard was ASUS A8V (Athlon64). ip
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:26:13 +0400 Igor Pokrovsky ip at unixway.org said> Hello all, > > I haven?t been using FreeBSD since 8-STABLE times. Recently I tried to > install latest 12-STABLE on my old computer. > But even during initial boot up loader hangs. Eventually I was able to > proceed with installation after replacing loader in > the installation disk with one found in my old system 8-STABLE. The same > happened when I tried zfs on root partition.A lot of things are moving around in /boot over the last year. Pure speculation; if you're using a usb stick. Mount it from your currently running system, and cd <mount-point>/boot rm ./loader cp -p ./loader.efi ./loader umount <mount-point> Then see if it doesn't work for you. Like I said, pure speculation. But you indicated an old box. So I think you might find this works. Best wishes! --Chris> > I used MBR partition on PATA hard drive. Motherboard was ASUS A8V > (Athlon64). > > ip > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
24.04.2020 11:26, Igor Pokrovsky ?????:> Hello all, > > I haven?t been using FreeBSD since 8-STABLE times. Recently I tried to install latest 12-STABLE on my old computer. > But even during initial boot up loader hangs. Eventually I was able to proceed with installation after replacing loader in > the installation disk with one found in my old system 8-STABLE. The same happened when I tried zfs on root partition. > > I used MBR partition on PATA hard drive. Motherboard was ASUS A8V (Athlon64).Modern FreeBSD versions use newer vt(4) console driver that defaults to pixel mode rendering and depends on correctness of ACPI tables of motherboard's firmware much more than old syscons(4) console driver that is still available. You should try escaping to the loader prompt first and run these commands: set kern.vty=sc boot Try it and see if it helps. If so, don't forget adding "kern.vty=sc" to /boot/loader.conf after installation.