EC2 won't load with FreeBSD AMI

Colin Percival cperciva at tarsnap.com
Wed Jun 1 06:14:05 UTC 2016


Have you tried "Get System Log"?  FreeBSD/EC2 sends its console output to
the (virtual) serial port, since that's the only console EC2 supported
until recently... you won't see anything useful on the "VGA" console.

Colin Percival

On 05/31/16 21:00, Seo Townsend wrote:
> Trying to load FreeBSD on AWS with no luck… I’ve used FreeBSD on AWS for ages and never ran into issues :/
> 
> When I go to view the emulated monitor output on AWS, it’s stuck at:
> 
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> /
> 
> ...Any Ideas? :/
> I’ve tried this on the 10.2 and 10.3 (official) AMIs on several instance types.
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Colin Percival
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