Bug #9094
open
MBT console settings are not forced to video console
Added by Jim Pingle about 6 years ago.
Updated about 6 years ago.
Category:
Hardware / Drivers
Affected Architecture:
amd64
Description
We have code in source:src/etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc#L1226 that checks for the MBT models and sets $hdmi_only
but that variable isn't used after it is set.
Thus, restoring a configuration set for serial console to an MBT will disable the console since it doesn't have an exposed serial port.
Also see #8978 because this needs to be set to EFI and not vidconsole.
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The console order appears to be correctly forced:
console="efi,comconsole"
Despite having set:
<primaryconsole>serial</primaryconsole>
However the primary console appears to remain set as serial. The boot output that is exclusively on the primary console is still seen only on the serial console.
- Assignee deleted (
Jim Pingle)
- Target version deleted (
2.4.4-p1)
Looks like that might be something in FreeBSD but needs more research. It doesn't seem to matter if console="efi,comconsole"
or console="comconsole,efi"
is used, the behavior is the same, the full output goes to serial.
Needs tested/confirmed with an MBT on FreeBSD 11.2. If it still happens there, we need to raise a PR with FreeBSD.
As far as our code goes, we're setting it as it's supposed to be now, so it's better than before at least.
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