This just came up. A system I have at home had been booting FreeNAS (FreeBSD-based) fine, but I powered it down for a while.
Now when I turn it on, the BIOS boot screen is fine, the GRUB boot selection screen is fine, but when it starts to boot the OS the screen goes all garbled. I can sort of make out some text, but it's generally unreadable.
Any ideas?
Also, is there a way to include picture attachments in mails to Roundtable? I thought I'd tried before and the picture was removed. I have a screenshot of the image I get while booting. It might help to see it.
Kevin
Try disabling GPU in bios settings
From: Kevin McGregor kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com To: Continuation of Round Table discussion roundtable@muug.ca Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2018 8:40 AM Subject: [RndTbl] Garbled boot screen
This just came up. A system I have at home had been booting FreeNAS (FreeBSD-based) fine, but I powered it down for a while. Now when I turn it on, the BIOS boot screen is fine, the GRUB boot selection screen is fine, but when it starts to boot the OS the screen goes all garbled. I can sort of make out some text, but it's generally unreadable. Any ideas? Also, is there a way to include picture attachments in mails to Roundtable? I thought I'd tried before and the picture was removed. I have a screenshot of the image I get while booting. It might help to see it. Kevin_______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
On 2018-05-06 Kevin McGregor wrote:
Now when I turn it on, the BIOS boot screen is fine, the GRUB boot selection screen is fine, but when it starts to boot the OS the screen goes all garbled. I can sort of make out some text, but it's generally unreadable.
Sounds like a OS update (you have auto-update on?) updated the vid card drivers and the new version is broken / doesn't like your card.
You can always try adding boot params to GRUB before it boots to enable whatever "safe" video mode may exist (not sure what BSD offers for this).
Also, is there a way to include picture attachments in mails to Roundtable? I thought I'd tried before and the picture was removed. I have a screenshot of the image I get while booting. It might help to see it.
Attachments are fine but they must be smallish. I think the cap is 250k per email. Try to shrink your pics down to 100k or so if you can. Remember, base64'ing will grown them by around 25%.
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