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23.1 Legacy Series / Duals console: Primary and Secondary are swapped on boot
« on: May 18, 2023, 07:05:08 pm »
I was installing my Dell R230 with OPNsense 23.1 and got it updated, then restored a backup which messed up console output on boot.
Fixed it by ticking "Use the virtual terminal driver (vt)" and setting Primary Console to EFI.
Though I am unsure if the latter is needed when using vt?
Anyway, I set EFI Console to Primary and left the Secondary console set to Serial.
But booting the machine, the Loader shows option 5 (Cons) as Serial Primary.
dmesg shows this as well:
That doesn't seem right?
Fixed it by ticking "Use the virtual terminal driver (vt)" and setting Primary Console to EFI.
Though I am unsure if the latter is needed when using vt?
Anyway, I set EFI Console to Primary and left the Secondary console set to Serial.
But booting the machine, the Loader shows option 5 (Cons) as Serial Primary.
dmesg shows this as well:
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Dual Console: Serial Primary, Video Secondary
That doesn't seem right?