Console stopped during installation (redirected to VGA?)

[nydidric]

Hi everyone

I got a brand new Qotom Q20331G9 C3758R and tried to install OPNsense, but I noticed that the serial console stops at EFI framebuffer information. I tested the serial and VGA installer with the same result. The system has VGA as well as a Console port.

If I connect to the serial com port with PuTTY, the console stops working with the following output:

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Loading kernel...
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x190830 text=0xe9ec20 text=0x6a453c data=0x140 data=0x1d2198+0x42ce68 0x8+0x1a6aa8+0x8+0x1c5622-
Loading configured modules...
/boot/kernel/pf.ko size 0x73398 at 0x236d000
/boot/kernel/if_gre.ko size 0xaa70 at 0x23e1000
can't find '/etc/hostid'
/boot/kernel/if_lagg.ko size 0x16148 at 0x23ec000
loading required module 'if_infiniband'
/boot/kernel/if_infiniband.ko size 0x3538 at 0x2403000
/boot/kernel/pflog.ko size 0x3b18 at 0x2407000
/boot/kernel/carp.ko size 0xf858 at 0x240b000
/boot/kernel/if_bridge.ko size 0xe8f8 at 0x241b000
loading required module 'bridgestp'
/boot/kernel/bridgestp.ko size 0x8958 at 0x242a000
/boot/kernel/pfsync.ko size 0xf4c8 at 0x2433000
/boot/kernel/if_enc.ko size 0x4b58 at 0x2443000
/boot/entropy size=0x1000
staging 0x6fe00000 (not copying) tramp 0x6fc9c000 PT4 0x6fc93000
Start @ 0xffffffff80391000 ...
EFI framebuffer information:
addr, size     0xdd000000, 0x1d4c00
dimensions     800 x 600
stride         800
masks          0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000


I also tried to hit 3 on the boot menu and set the following variables, but with the same result:

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set boot_multicons=YES
set boot_serial=YES
set comconsole_speed=115200
set console=comconsole
boot

The available consoles are efi, comconsole, nullconsole, spinconsole

After a few minutes, I can connect over the WebUI on the LAN port with 192.168.1.1. I also tried to set the primary console to the serial console under System Settings Administration and deactivated the virtual terminal driver. But also, with this setting, the PuTTY console doesn't respond.


I am new in the Linux/FreeBSD world and have no clue about the bootloaders. The boot continues and, I guess, is redirected to the VGA. Still, I currently don't have a VGA Cable and Adapter to HDMI available. Did I miss a setting in the BIOS or during the installation to have the console continue on the Console port?

Best
Nydi

[jahlives]

have you checked you BIOS settings? Usually it's named something like "console redicrection" or similar

[nydidric]

Thanks for your reply.

In the BIOS under Serial Port Console Redirection is the following set:
COM0 (Pci Bus0,Dev26,Func0)
Console Redirection [Enabled]

Then, there are multiple options for Console Redirection Settings and Legacy Console Redirection Settings.

Furthermore, under Serial Port for Out-of-Band Management/Windows Emergency Management Services (EMS) is the Console Redirection [Disabled]

However, that's the BIOS Console Redirection, the way I can currently select the boot device, right? If I turn off the COM0 redirection, do I retain the possibility of entering the BIOS via the USB Console connection?

I also get to the installer's splash screen on the console and can select everything there. But after that, it stops with the EFI framebuffer information.

Best
Nydi

[nydidric]

Hi everyone

So, after testing a lot, I got it to a point where it is passing the EFI framebuffer information.
Quite a noobie mistake. I had to set the port speed to 115200 in the Windows Device Manager as well as in PuTTY and I only had it configured in PuTTY.

However, now I am stuck at Mounting filesys. What could be my mistake?

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Loading kernel...
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x190830 text=0xe9ec20 text=0x6a453c data=0x140 data=0x1d2198+0x42ce68 0x8+0x1a6aa8+0x8+0x1c5622-
|Loading configured modules...
/boot/kernel/if_enc.ko size 0x4b58 at 0x236d000
/boot/kernel/carp.ko size 0xf858 at 0x2372000
/boot/kernel/if_lagg.ko size 0x16148 at 0x2382000
loading required module 'if_infiniband'
/boot/kernel/if_infiniband.ko size 0x3538 at 0x2399000
/boot/kernel/if_gre.ko size 0xaa70 at 0x239d000
/boot/kernel/pflog.ko size 0x3b18 at 0x23a8000
loading required module 'pf'
/boot/kernel/pf.ko size 0x73398 at 0x23ac000
/boot/kernel/pfsync.ko size 0xf4c8 at 0x2420000
can't find '/etc/hostid'
/boot/kernel/if_bridge.ko size 0xe8f8 at 0x2430000
loading required module 'bridgestp'
/boot/kernel/bridgestp.ko size 0x8958 at 0x243f000
/boot/entropy size=0x1000
staging 0x6fe00000 (not copying) tramp 0x6fc9c000 PT4 0x6fc93000
Start @ 0xffffffff80391000 ...
EFI framebuffer information:
addr, size     0xdd000000, 0x1d4c00
dimensions     800 x 600
stride         800
masks          0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
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pci1: <processor> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdf4e0000-0xdf4fffff irq 16 at device 9.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
nvme0: <Generic NVMe Device> mem 0xdf200000-0xdf203fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
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igc0: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-V> mem 0xdee00000-0xdeefffff,0xdef00000-0xdef03fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4
igc0: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
igc0: Using 4 RX queues 4 TX queues
igc0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 5 vectors
igc0: Ethernet address: 20:7c:14:f3:81:49
igc0: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024
pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdf480000-0xdf49ffff irq 19 at device 12.0 on pci0
pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
igc1: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-V> mem 0xdeb00000-0xdebfffff,0xdec00000-0xdec03fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5
igc1: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
igc1: Using 4 RX queues 4 TX queues
igc1: Using MSI-X interrupts with 5 vectors
igc1: Ethernet address: 20:7c:14:f3:81:4a
igc1: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024
pcib6: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdf460000-0xdf47ffff irq 20 at device 14.0 on pci0
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igc2: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
igc2: Using 4 RX queues 4 TX queues
igc2: Using MSI-X interrupts with 5 vectors
igc2: Ethernet address: 20:7c:14:f3:81:4b
igc2: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024
pcib7: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdf440000-0xdf45ffff irq 21 at device 15.0 on pci0
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igc3: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-V> mem 0xde500000-0xde5fffff,0xde600000-0xde603fff irq 21 at device 0.0 on pci7
igc3: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
igc3: Using 4 RX queues 4 TX queues
igc3: Using MSI-X interrupts with 5 vectors
igc3: Ethernet address: 20:7c:14:f3:81:4c
igc3: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024
pcib8: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdf420000-0xdf43ffff irq 22 at device 16.0 on pci0
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igc4: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-V> mem 0xde200000-0xde2fffff,0xde300000-0xde303fff irq 22 at device 0.0 on pci8
igc4: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
igc4: Using 4 RX queues 4 TX queues
igc4: Using MSI-X interrupts with 5 vectors
igc4: Ethernet address: 20:7c:14:f3:81:4d
igc4: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024
pcib9: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdf400000-0xdf41ffff irq 23 at device 17.0 on pci0
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ix0: <Intel(R) X553 N (SFP+)> mem 0xdcc00000-0xdcdfffff,0xdce04000-0xdce07fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci11
ix0: Using 2048 TX descriptors and 2048 RX descriptors
ix0: Using 8 RX queues 8 TX queues
ix0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 9 vectors
ix0: allocated for 8 queues
ix0: allocated for 8 rx queues
ix0: Ethernet address: 20:7c:14:f3:81:4e
ix0: eTrack 0x80000bd7 PHY FW V65535
ix0: netmap queues/slots: TX 8/2048, RX 8/2048
ix1: <Intel(R) X553 N (SFP+)> mem 0xdca00000-0xdcbfffff,0xdce00000-0xdce03fff irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci11
ix1: Using 2048 TX descriptors and 2048 RX descriptors
ix1: Using 8 RX queues 8 TX queues
ix1: Using MSI-X interrupts with 9 vectors
ix1: allocated for 8 queues
ix1: allocated for 8 rx queues
ix1: Ethernet address: 20:7c:14:f3:81:4f
ix1: eTrack 0x80000bd7 PHY FW V65535
ix1: netmap queues/slots: TX 8/2048, RX 8/2048
pcib12: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 23.0 on pci0
pci12: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib12
ix2: <Intel(R) X553 N (SFP+)> mem 0xdc600000-0xdc7fffff,0xdc804000-0xdc807fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci12
ix2: Using 2048 TX descriptors and 2048 RX descriptors
ix2: Using 8 RX queues 8 TX queues
ix2: Using MSI-X interrupts with 9 vectors
ix2: allocated for 8 queues
ix2: allocated for 8 rx queues
ix2: Ethernet address: 20:7c:14:f3:81:50
ix2: eTrack 0x80000c01 PHY FW V65535
ix2: netmap queues/slots: TX 8/2048, RX 8/2048
ix3: <Intel(R) X553 N (SFP+)> mem 0xdc400000-0xdc5fffff,0xdc800000-0xdc803fff irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci12
ix3: Using 2048 TX descriptors and 2048 RX descriptors
ix3: Using 8 RX queues 8 TX queues
ix3: Using MSI-X interrupts with 9 vectors
ix3: allocated for 8 queues
ix3: allocated for 8 rx queues
ix3: Ethernet address: 20:7c:14:f3:81:51
ix3: eTrack 0x80000c01 PHY FW V65535
ix3: netmap queues/slots: TX 8/2048, RX 8/2048
pci0: <simple comms> at device 24.0 (no driver attached)
uart2: <Intel Denverton UART> port 0xe060-0xe067 mem 0xdf519000-0xdf5190ff irq 16 at device 26.0 on pci0
uart2: Using 1 MSI message
uart2: console (115200,n,8,1)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
pci0: <memory> at device 31.2 (no driver attached)
pci0: <serial bus> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
apei0: <ACPI Platform Error Interface> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0
est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
Timecounter "TSC-low" frequency 1200000072 Hz quality 1000
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ugen0.1: <Intel XHCI root HUB> at usbus0
uhub0 on usbus0
uhub0: <Intel XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
nvd0: <PSE12F-M2280-512G-V01> NVMe namespace
nvd0: 488386MB (1000215216 512 byte sectors)
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/OPNsense_Install [ro,noatime]...
uhub0: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
Root mount waiting for: CAM usbus0
usb_msc_auto_quirk: UQ_MSC_NO_GETMAXLUN set for USB mass storage device SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 (0x0781:0x5591)
usb_msc_auto_quirk: UQ_MSC_NO_PREVENT_ALLOW set for USB mass storage device SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 (0x0781:0x5591)
ugen0.2: <SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0> at usbus0
umass0 on uhub0
umass0: <SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0, class 0/0, rev 2.10/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x8100
umass0:8:0: Attached to scbus8
Root mount waiting for: CAM usbus0
ugen0.3: <vendor 0x05e3 USB2.0 Hub> at usbus0
uhub1 on uhub0
uhub1: <vendor 0x05e3 USB2.0 Hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/60.90, addr 2> on usbus0
Root mount waiting for: CAM usbus0
uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
Root mount waiting for: CAM
Root mount waiting for: CAM
Root mount waiting for: CAM
Root mount waiting for: CAM
Root mount waiting for: CAM
Root mount waiting for: CAM
ses0 at ahciem0 bus 0 scbus4 target 0 lun 0
ses0: <AHCI SGPIO Enclosure 2.00 0001> SEMB S-E-S 2.00 device
ses0: SEMB SES Device
ses1 at ahciem1 bus 0 scbus7 target 0 lun 0
ses1: <AHCI SGPIO Enclosure 2.00 0001> SEMB S-E-S 2.00 device
ses1: SEMB SES Device
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus8 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 1.00> Removable Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da0: Serial Number 4C530001100728120285
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 14663MB (30031250 512 byte sectors)
da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
Dual Console: Serial Primary, Video Secondary
Mounting filesys


[cookiemonster]

none I can see. CAM errors are related to storage. Either controller, cable or disk. A problem on one or more.

[FraLem]

Hi there, make sure that the image you are loading has serial console enabled.

[nydidric]

Hi there, thanks for all your help!

I used the serial installer but also organised a VGA cable in the meantime. Interestingly, the VGA installer gets through, and I could install OPNsense but have yet to get the console running even if I configure the console under System > Settings > Administration. I wonder why I can install OPNsense via VGA but not via serial console, and it stops after initialising the two consoles with:

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...
Dual Console: Serial Primary, Video Secondary
Mounting filesys


I must have done something wrong, but I have less knowledge of FreeBSD/Linux to debug the setup. Maybe it also has to do with the China hardware and I should just accept it as it is... however, I like to tinker and solve such problems to get the full potential and everything running as it should ;)

Could it maybe also have something to do with boot configuration, perhaps something along this:

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OK set boot_multicons="YES"            #What this does is allow multiple consoles. IE. Screen and Serial Port
OK set boot_serial="YES"               #This is the only line needed. This is the trigger
OK set comconsole_speed="115200"       #This setting is actually the default so it is not needed in most cases
OK set console="comconsole,efi"        #This sets the multi console interfaces for EFI BIOS

Source: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/i-lose-serial-console-during-bootup.83446/

Or even redirecting the UART configuration?

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OK set hw.uart.console="mm:0xfedc9000,rs:2"

Source: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/default-serial-console-to-login.70957, https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2018/07/how-to-get-memory-mapped-serial-console.html

[nydidric]

Hi everyone!

So I have tested more and discovered the console only works on the eficonsole. However, I am still stuck on the same stage: "Mounting filesys" while on the VGA port on the same boot it outputs at this stage "Mounting filesystem" and continues booting without issue.

I noticed grey and white outputs on the VGA Port, and the console connected with PuTTY only spits out those lines written in white but not grey.

Maybe this helps to find my misconfiguration?

[cookiemonster]

you should not need to modify these boot options to get a working console via VGA unless using serial or embedded images. Maybe you should also consult the vendor.

[nydidric]

The VGA console is working perfectly fine, I try to get the com console working over RJ45 -> USB, therefore the EIF Console.

[cookiemonster]

Right ok. All those values you have been fiddling with will only apply to the primary console. This is why I say you don't need them.
If you want to ALSO have a secondary console, you need to go back to System | Settings | Administration and try the different values in "Secondary Console".
Looking at the log:

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Dual Console: Serial Primary, Video Secondary
Mounting filesys
The last message is Mounting filesys but probably was the last before the buffer was directed by the line above to the both consoles. As to what value it should be is a question for the vendor if you can't figure it out by trial and error.
p.s. my guess is it would need to be either VGA or serial for common setups.

[Hobby-Student]

I'm currently in the same situation as @nydidric, same hardware. I did manage to get beyond "EFI framebuffer" with

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set comconsole_port=0xe060

and only serial enabled. Dual console didn't work. With serial and VGA connected (yes, VGA is working even it's set to boot only serial console) I get slightly different output. The serial stops at "Mounting filesys", but VGA also stops. Unfortunately I forgot to make a note on the last line and will post it later today.

I'll report back after some more tests and I hope we will figure it out.

[Hobby-Student]

Perhaps I found something. I took the information from the device

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uart2: <Intel Denverton UART> port 0xe060-0xe067 mem 0xdf519000-0xdf5190ff irq 16 at device 26.0 on pci0

On boot I pressed "5" to get "Dual (Video primary)" (because everything else is not working) and then "3":

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set hint.uart.0.flags=0x00
set hint.uart.1.flags=0x00
set hint.uart.2.flags=0x10
set hint.uart.2.at="pci"
set hint.uart.2.port="0xe060"
set hint.uart.2.irq="16"

It's booting with VGA and console output, but:
On the VGA output I can see every message (white and some grey) and login after boot. On the serial output all grey messages, e. g.

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>> Invoking start script 'newwanip' are missing and I can't login after boot.

Is anyone with more experience able to solve this?

[Hobby-Student]

I tried many different combinations and I can't get it to work 100%. Why is it, that I can't get some output to the comconsole? What am I missing?

It's now booting with efi (had an error, that vidconsole doesn't exist) and comconsole, but it misses those ">> Invoking ..." lines completely on the console output. :o

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Can you install, though? What happens once you explicitly enable the serial console in the UI?