FreeBSD install on ASUS TUF Gaming Wifi D4

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Chris

It took me a few tries to get 13.1-RELEASE to install. I couldn't get past the boot screen with the efi loader on the memstick. As FreeBSD starts to load the screen goes black with a square cursor blinking on the top left corner. CSM was greyed out in the BIOS and the only way I could get past that to load using legacy was by adding another graphics card. Everything seems to work except for Bluetooth and the onboard graphics. The CPU is a 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700 (2112.00-MHz K8-class CPU). Apparently ASUS/Intel disables the graphics support when not booting with EFI.

I decided to to try 14.0 and it loads without any issue from the install memstick. The reason that I got this MB was due to the 4 onboard NVMe slots. Since 14 is still in development I don't want to proceed in that direction. I can keep the system on legacy but since I am not rushed I would like a pointer on how to proceed to get the system to boot on efi with 13.1.

I don't believe the system freezes since the USB memstick flashes after the screen goes dark. Can someone point me in a direction to proceed. At worst I'll waste some time and maybe learn something at best I'll get the system up on 13.1 with efi.
 
At the boot menu, check if Cons: (option 5 from the top of my head) might be set to "Serial". Try setting this to "Video" and see if that works. I have a fairly new machine and for some reason EFI doesn't expose "ConOut" or a "ConOutDevices", so the boot loader thinks I don't have video and will fall back to a serial console. Machine still boots but you simply don't see anything on screen.
 
Hi

I missed that up too. So I have just made a reinstall on uefi. Took an hour and works well. One thing though. How to change the default boot video mode from serial to video ??. I am sure I will forget to press 5 at the boot menu from time to time

:)
 
larshenrikoern said:
Hi

I missed that up too. So I have just made a reinstall on uefi. Took an hour and works well. One thing though. How to change the default boot video mode from serial to video ??. I am sure I will forget to press 5 at the boot menu from time to time

:)
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Hi again

Thank you for the swift answer. Yep it is indeed just /boot/loader.conf adding two lines on top:

console="efi"
boot_serial="NO"

I thought it was the loader itself that needed modification. And that would be a bit scary ?
 
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