Bootloader on Raspberry Pi doesn't clear screen

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oitdmser

Running the FreeBSD 12 Release on the Raspberry Pi. In /boot/loader.conf I changed beastie_disable to "NO" so I would get the boot menu. As shown in the image below, the bootloader doesn't clear the screen and it's very difficult to see what's going on.

Did I do something wrong? Is this a bug? Where is this info documented?
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oitdmser said:
In /boot/loader.conf I changed beastie_disable to "NO" so I would get the boot menu.
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Sooo. oitdmser.

:D

Is "NO" a typo? The man page for /boot/loader.conf only gives "YES" as an option to get to the boot menu.
 
"NO" is not a typo. The default is beastie_disable="YES" which boots without a menu.

In my testing I have found either of the following have the result illustrated in the OP:

beastie_disable="NO"
#beastie_disable="YES"
 
ComradeSlice said:
I have the same issue :)

Try these:
boot_multicons="YES"
beastie_disable="YES"
loader_color="NO"
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I appreciate your suggestion, but I need the boot menu so I can select single user mode if needed. Disabling beastie disables the necessary boot loader
 
It doesn't disable the boot loader, just the menu. You can still interrupt loader(8) and enter boot -s to boot to single user mode. You may also want to take a look at the nextboot(8) command.
 
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