Re: Boot stops at loader after build/install cycle

On Mar 27, 2023, at 09:49, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> For some time (months, I think) a Pi4 running -current 
> has been stopping at the loader prompt

What load command(s) then prove sufficient to let it boot?
Do you have to cut power and re-power the RPi4B?

> on first reboot
> following a buildworld/buildkernel/installeverything
> cycle.

Can you capture and post someplace the serial console output
for such a 1st reboot?

I'll note that one thing folks have run into in the past has
been signaling on the serial console itself before/during
the wait leading to the loader stopping at the prompt. A
serial console log may or may not show extra characters in
such a case.

> The system uses a USB mechanical disk, no microSD
> and has never had trouble finding the disk.  

If finding the disk was a problem, there likely would be
explicit messaging about that. But you do not report any.

> It seems to happen only on the first reboot, though 
> I'm not absolutely certain  since I haven't been
> keeping notes. 


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Mark Millard
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