Dear Sirs, I am an absolute FreeBSD beginner and am writing here after suggestion got in the Forum. Briefing: as in the title, DVD and image stick install process aborts some lines after process starts and machine automatically reboots showing GRUB2. Better than words a short video can show you what I mean, here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15xmKyqZrHvLfrjUj02d0Xg6_b0TX0BrJ/view?usp=sharing Thread in the Forum here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-12-0-install-from-dvd-aborts.68960/ lshw machine here: https://pastebin.com/nGx5K1NA Two HDD on the machine: /dev/sda = only Windows 10 /dev/sdb = Linux GPT partitions ext4 (plus or minus 70 GB each plus NTFS for data, efi and swap) If needing more data, please, let me know. Best Regards Silvio Arnone
Created attachment 200761 [details] lshw.log Attaching lwhw.log (from pastebin) so the information is self contained in this issue.
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@Silvio, Can you detail exactly which DVD ISO (full filename) image you you downloaded and whether you have tried any others? If you haven't tried any others, I would attempt the bootonly and memstick images, if nothing else than to give us a couple of more datapoints
@ Kubilay, I have been downloading this one: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso and this one: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img getting the same result. After that, I have been trying this one: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/11.2/FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img it doesn't start a too. Best Regards Silvio
Hello, I'm on a Supermicro A2SDi-8C+-HLN4F + 16GB RAM with 11-RELEASE installation that was upgraded to 12.0 RELEASE via freebsd-update. I did the update to 12.1 before christmas but i think i haven't done a reboot because my latest known uptime was approx. 180 days. I learned about rc.local now and tested my setup via shutdown -r and after that i got the same failure structure as seen on the https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=200762 - system freeze after the EFI framebuffer information lines; ending with "masks 0x...". Still in operator PANIC mode i've got FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img up and running and managed to reduce rc.conf to minimum modules and to get write access to /boot/loader.conf which is verbose_loading="YES" now. I also tried kern.vty=sc, hw.vga.textmode=1, but with no help. The system still freeze after the masks line. I found some other logfiles and the next line after the masks line usually may be ---<<BOOT>>--- which is not seen here. I noticed most of the memstick loader files in /boot/ are dated nov 01 05:14 while some of my loader files are dec 10 10:40 and others are feb 15 2019. Meanwhile i extracted base.txz and kernel.txz from the image above into the sytem without success. I noticed i have 2 kernel and changed to the other one. I see it's /boot/kernel.old/kernel now but it still freezes. Please recheck bug report header. If this is valid to be the same bug then it does affect me too.