Failing to boot after install

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Re: Failing to boot after install

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Welcome to GhostBSD by the way and sorry for the late reply!!
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Re: Failing to boot after install

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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"
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Re: Failing to boot after install

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I have tried them all, but it will only boot into a graphical environment with scfb
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Re: Failing to boot after install

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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
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Re: Failing to boot after install

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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.
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Re: Failing to boot after install

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Strange. Your card should be supported
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Re: Failing to boot after install

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Re: Failing to boot after install

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Please show your

/etc/rc.conf file

cat /etc/rc.conf
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Re: Failing to boot after install

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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
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Re: Failing to boot after install

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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
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