Serial Console not primary

[erje]

Dear community,

When installing the OPNsense serial version, after installation the serial console is not set as primary. Is this expected behaviour?

Earlier this week I upgraded from OPNsense 21.x to OPNsense 22.1.8_1-amd64 on an APU4d4. After the update it looked like that the APU4d4 hang during pre boot, where looking for a device to boot from. Even though I am pretty sure I heard the beep, I was not able to connect to the web GUI. (Cold) restarting always resulted in the same frozen pre boot screen on the serial console.

Eventually I downloaded the installation image OPNsense-22.1.2-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img and booted from USB key. Once running the live image, I started the installation process. Luckily I was able to load the old configuration file, still on the SDD from the previous installation.

After a system reboot I found the serial console again stuck at pre boot but this time I could hear the beep after a short while and eventually I could login to the web GUI with the IP setup from my old configuration.

Best regards,
Robbert

[erje]

OK, never mind. I did a complete new installation from scratch on a second (identical) system but without loading the old configuration. this time the system rebooted with serial console enabled.

Something must have gone wrong with he restore of the old configuration. I am 100% sure that the serial console was working before.

[franco]

Some people tend to check "usb console" setting which is wrong for APU for sure.


Cheers,
Franco