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Re: Failing to boot after install

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 7:49 pm
by NevilleGoddard
Welcome to GhostBSD by the way and sorry for the late reply!!

Re: Failing to boot after install

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 8:05 pm
by NevilleGoddard
Looking at FreeBSD forums, someone with your card put this in

/boot/loader.conf and it worked for him

hw.syscons.disable=1

So run these commands

ee /boot/loader.conf

Then enter somewhere in the file

hw.syscons.disable=1

Then press esc and save


And see if that works. What happens when you do the above it stops some of the output when booting and it looks garbled but allows the OS access to your graphics card

Make sure you have the

drm-fbsd12-kmod package installed also that you have in your

/etc/rc.conf file, in the kld_list line


amdgpu so it should look like this


kld_list="amdgpu linux plusotherstuff"

Re: Failing to boot after install

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:53 am
by jcpollman
I have tried them all, but it will only boot into a graphical environment with scfb

Re: Failing to boot after install

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 12:21 pm
by NevilleGoddard
I have a Radeon card that worked by doing the following

Edit /boot/loader.conf and put in

hw.syscons.disable=1


Put in the kld_list line in rc.conf

amdgpu

Then reboot

Re: Failing to boot after install

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:02 pm
by jcpollman
I have tried them all, only scfb will start a graphical environment with my amd computer. It is a bit ugly (1024x768) but useable for installing. When I reboot the boot loader looks at all the partitions and says nothing is bootable.
JC

Re: Failing to boot after install

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:28 pm
by NevilleGoddard
Strange. Your card should be supported

Re: Failing to boot after install

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:33 pm
by NevilleGoddard

Re: Failing to boot after install

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:34 pm
by NevilleGoddard
Please show your

/etc/rc.conf file

cat /etc/rc.conf

Re: Failing to boot after install

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:59 am
by jcpollman
I finally got Ghost installed, and working well, on another computer. I spent well over 2 months on this, and think I will give it a rest until the next current version of FreeBSD comes out - in the autumn from my understanding
JC

Re: Failing to boot after install

Posted: Mon May 04, 2020 3:44 pm
by jcpollman
Tried to install 2004.1. The video resolution was perfect! Well done. However, I could not install it. When I partitioned the drive (using 200 gigs on a 2 tb nvme drive) no matter how I tried, the "Next" button never became active so I could actually install it. I tried the auto allocation, manual, and all the various zfs/ufs combos. The computer is using UEFI to boot. When I was restarting, I saw:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/gbi/partition.py", line 617
if 'BOOT' in self.prttn(0) and bios_type == 'BIOS';
IndexError: list index out of range

JC