Loader hangs on the latest -STABLE

[Igor Pokrovsky]

> On 24 апр. 2020 г., at 13:55, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:
> 
> 24.04.2020 11:26, Igor Pokrovsky пишет:
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I haven’t been using FreeBSD since 8-STABLE times. Recently I tried to install latest 12-STABLE on my old computer.
>> But even during initial boot up loader hangs. Eventually I was able to proceed with installation after replacing loader in 
>> the installation disk with one found in my old system 8-STABLE. The same happened when I tried zfs on root partition.
>> 
>> I used MBR partition on PATA hard drive. Motherboard was ASUS A8V (Athlon64).
> 
> Modern FreeBSD versions use newer vt(4) console driver that defaults to pixel mode rendering
> and depends on correctness of ACPI tables of motherboard's firmware much more
> than old syscons(4) console driver that is still available.
> You should try escaping to the loader prompt first and run these commands:
> 
> set kern.vty=sc
> boot
> 
> Try it and see if it helps. If so, don't forget adding "kern.vty=sc" to /boot/loader.conf
> after installation.
> 

Yes, I tried sc, but it doesnt help too.

I attached my drive to Promise RAID controller and system boots just fine now.
Probably the cause is in hardware, failed controller was made by VIA.

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