VGA Text display Freezes at boot after 19.1 update, but...... OPNSense works

[mmoore]

Hi All, this is a new one for me. 

I upgraded from 18.7 -->19.1. OPNSense is running on a Micro Appliance With 4x Intel Gigabit Ports, Intel Atom E3845, AES-NI, 4GB RAM, 32GB mSATA. Display/keyboard/mouse through a raritan kvm device.

After update the monitor display freezes during booting (Pls see attachment). I was guessing a kernel panic of some sort..... But

However, to my shock :) .... The boot completes successfully (even though the display freezes) in the background, the interfaces come up, and the Webpage is accessible.
I rebooted a number of times, the display freeze is consistent. 
Nothing of note could be found in the logs.....

I would love any ideas?  ..........  Because I'm out of them :)

Regards,

Mat

[newsense]

Likely the same issue described here:

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=11288.0

[mmoore]

Yes it does look like that post.  Apologies, I did go though the posts first before posting...  though I clearly missed that one :)
It's a production server, so I can't reboot till the weekend, but I'll update on the success/failure when I do.
Thanks newsense for the reply,
Mat

[newsense]

19.1.2 might be up this week so make sure to read the release notes, that change might not be needed after all.

[franco]

No plans for 19.1.2 in this regard.

[newsense]

Thanks for clarifying that franco.

Going forward what would be the best way to document that behavior for niche hardware ? Would that thread be appropriate to be moved in the Tutorials section or just have a sticky in the Prod Series subforum with quirks and workarounds where such issues could be documented ?