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weust
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Duals console: Primary and Secondary are swapped on boot
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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:
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Dual Console: Serial Primary, Video Secondary
That doesn't seem right?
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franco
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Re: Duals console: Primary and Secondary are swapped on boot
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May 18, 2023, 07:42:30 pm »
It depends on the hardware. Some EFI consoles might present itself as "serial". Or do all of them? I don't actually know.
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Franco
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weust
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Re: Duals console: Primary and Secondary are swapped on boot
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May 19, 2023, 10:26:21 am »
OK, but that doesn't explain why the order that is set in the WebGUI config isn't maintained on boot.
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Re: Duals console: Primary and Secondary are swapped on boot
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May 19, 2023, 09:47:07 pm »
Kernel/boot loader probably ignores it? Not sure and not a fan of the code involved making a lot of assumptions and reacting differently based on magic environment variables given in loder.conf most the time.
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Franco
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