Solved Standard Startup Boot Screen Lost

[littleblackangel]

How do I recover it? It does not show up anymore. I'm referring to the ASCII screen with the devil logo and a big "FREEBSD", with boot options. Thank you.

 

[SirDice]

Have a look in /boot/loader.conf and see if there's a beastie_disable="YES". If so, remove it.

 

[littleblackangel]

Thank you SirDice for the response! My /boot/loader.conf file is actually blank :/

 

[Terri_Kennedy]

Thank you SirDice for the response! My /boot/loader.conf file is actually blank :/

Then you probably want:

loader_logo="beastie"

 

[tobik@]

It does not show up anymore.

Did you change/update anything prior to loosing the menu? Or did it just happen?

The menu is not supported if you're using the UEFI loader.

 

[SirDice]

Check if it's been modified in /boot/default/loader.conf. This file should never be modified but inexperienced users may have edited it.

 

[littleblackangel]

Then you probably want:

loader_logo="beastie"

I tried this but it did not work

 

[littleblackangel]

Check if it's been modified in /boot/default/loader.conf. This file should never be modified but inexperienced users may have edited it.

Did you change/update anything prior to loosing the menu? Or did it just happen?

The menu is not supported if you're using the UEFI loader.

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[tobik@]

Can you run freebsd-update IDS to make sure no loader files got corrupted?

 

[littleblackangel]

Hey all! I have the beautiful ASCII screen back! hehe. I simply reinstalled FreeBSD... thank you all for your help!

 

[Chris_H]

Just for the record; it's not loader.conf(5), per se;
It's loader.4th, and loader.rc, as well as: menu.4th menu.rc menusets.4th menu-commands.4th. Though it is possible to influence if via loader.conf(5). In this case, I would say it was more important to ensure all of those files were actually present under /boot/, and further, that they weren't corrupt.

HTH

--Chris