Headless hardware not booting installer further than EFI frambuffer information

[6thC]

Hi all,

I've had OPNSense running on an AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V1807B with Radeon™ Vega 11 Graphics - https://www.sapphiretech.global/en/commercial/fs-fp5#Specification for quite some time now... thanks btw!

The V1807B SoC does have a gpu && video ports.

I have new hardware I'm trying to setup but running into issues where the boot apparently just freezes.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HSZXf7o3jQgtxcP46

This is using "serial" type media of 23.1 "Quintessential Quail"
Console is being accessed over USB serial - all seems to be working fine there... I've tried the DVD iso media also and they symptoms are the same.

Hardware is: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UfD2cHisR9YmykgQ7
https://www.solid-run.com/fanless-computers/bedrock-v3000-basic/#specifications
AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V3C48 8C/16T/45W is a Zen3+ 6nm

There are no PCIE / GPU ports. As seen, it's a dedicated bit of networking type kit.

I note that "EFI framebuffer information" is all nulls - I think that would be expected as the hardware is headless|USB Serial console access only.

Unless "EFI framebuffer information" is not video frame buffer references something else?
Can anyone please assist - I've only found things like https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209821 where there was no information, that I see at least, for me to chase?

[newsense]

Try installing 23.7.r1 or wait for the official release on Monday.

If that doesn't work it may be worth opening a ticket with the vendor and also check if a BIOS update is available.

Lastly, a FreeBSD bug could be opened as well if you can't get 13.2 (which is now powering 23.7) up and running.

[6thC]

Thanks, I appreciate it.

I'll give those ideas a go.

I've tried "FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img" and get the same null information and apparent freeze.

MX-21.3_ahs_x64.iso gives me some further insight when booting, after selecting MX from grub 2.06-3~deb11u5
I get written:

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error: not suitable video mode found.
Booting in blind mode
I guess I have some more digging about starting these things blind (mode).
Headless was so easy with a GPU ...

[newsense]

On re-reading this, serial needs MBR boot, unless you can change something in the BIOS you might not be able to use the serial install.

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Select the image type:
dvd: ISO installer image with live system capabilities running in VGA mode. On amd64, UEFI boot is supported as well.
vga: USB installer image with live system capabilities running in VGA mode as GPT boot. On amd64, UEFI boot is supported as well.
serial: USB installer image with live system capabilities running in serial console (115200) mode as MBR boot.
nano: a preinstalled serial image for USB sticks, SD or CF cards as MBR boot. These images are 3G in size and automatically adapt to the installed media size after first boot.