Re: Why doesn't the EFI boot loader want to display the graphical orb logo in its boot menu on an Asus Prime 7590-P motherboard?

Any, by the way, "show console" also shows "efi,comconsole", just like
"kenv | grep efi" does.

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:40 PM Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com> wrote:

> My ESP partition has EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi . I copied /boot/loader.efi to
> EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi when I compiled stand after this commit was added to
> the main branch:
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=c16e08e5f324aa119c85e10eaabacbd2abdb40e0
> .
> I get this output:
> kenv | grep efi
> console="efi,comconsole"
> efi-version="2.70"
> efi_com_port="0"
> efi_com_speed="0"
> efi_max_resolution="1x1"
> entropy_efi_seed="YES"
> loader.efi="1"
>
> And in the attachment, you can see the output from the loader prompt.
>
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:20 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 12. May 2023, at 01:09, Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> kenv | grep screen produces this output:
>>
>> screensave_load="NO"
>> screensave_name="green_saver"
>>
>>
>> Yep, the screen is considered to be in text mode and only ascii art is
>> used (see drawer.lua).
>>
>> on loader prompt, does ‘gop get’ or ‘gop list’ output anything?
>>
>> if gop does output reasonable data, make sure your loader.efi on ESP is
>> up to date; if you have no ConOut and ConOutDev variables set (by
>> firmware), older loader did default to serial port, recent loader does
>> default to efi,comconsole (see show console on loader prompt).
>>
>> rgds,
>> toomas
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:06 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12. May 2023, at 00:57, Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> kenv | grep boot shows me this:
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you run kenv | grep screen ? in gfx mode, you should see
>>> screen.depth, screen.height and screen.width
>>>
>>> rgds,
>>> toomas
>>>
>>>
>>> acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml"
>>> boot_verbose="YES"
>>> bootenv_autolist="YES"
>>> bootenvs[0]="zfs:DESKTOP/poudriere"
>>> bootenvs_count="1"
>>> bootfile="kernel"
>>> cpu_microcode_name="/boot/firmware/ucode.bin"
>>> entropy_cache_name="/boot/entropy"
>>> entropy_cache_type="boot_entropy_cache"
>>> if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"
>>> kernel_path="/boot/kernel"
>>> kernelname="/boot/kernel/kernel"
>>> loader_conf_dirs="/boot/loader.conf.d"
>>> module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/boot/dtb;/boot/dtb/overlays"
>>> nextboot_conf="/boot/nextboot.conf"
>>> ram_blacklist_name="/boot/blacklist.txt"
>>>
>>> The efivar command shows me:
>>>
>>> efivar --device-path 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut
>>> efivar: fetching 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut: No such
>>> file or directory
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 5:43 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:21 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > On 12. May 2023, at 00:11, Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Guys, there is something that I find puzzling. Why doesn't the EFI
>>>>> boot loader want to display the graphical orb logo in its boot menu on an
>>>>> Asus Prime 7590-P motherboard? Is there something quirky about this
>>>>> particular motherboard that forces the FreeBSD EFI loader to display the
>>>>> old style ASCII orb logo in its boot menu? Please explain to me the cause
>>>>> of this problem and if possible, give me a solution to it.
>>>>>
>>>>> There can be two reasons. One is that resolution is low and there is
>>>>> no space to put the image on. Second one is that the screen is forced to
>>>>> use “text” mode, which happens when system has configured to have serial
>>>>> console (redirection).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think the latter isn't the case (based on earlier email with Oleg),
>>>> but we can be sure if he provides:
>>>> (1) kenv (to make sure boot_xxx are set, maybe via a stray loader.conf)
>>>> (2) sudo efivar --device-path
>>>> 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut
>>>>
>>>> It should show something like:
>>>> 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut
>>>> :
>>>> PciRoot(0x2)/Pci(0x1,0x2)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/AcpiAdr(0x80010100),/PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x3)/Serial(0x1)/Uart(115200,8,N,1)/UartFlowCtrl(Hardware)/VenVt100Plus()
>>>>
>>>> if there's redirect or something like
>>>>
>>>> 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut
>>>> :
>>>> PciRoot(0x2)/Pci(0x1,0x2)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/AcpiAdr(0x80010100)
>>>>
>>>> if not.
>>>>
>>>> Warner
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>