Are you sure that the system isn't actually booting or are you saying that because you get no console output after going to userland? It's possible that /etc/ttys is not in sync with your console configuration in loader.conf. If that happened, nothing from /etc/rc would print to console during boot and you wouldn't get a login prompt, but networking and the like would still work. If you need the console to access it (e.g. no sshd is configured) you can try booting into single-user and look at /etc/ttys from there. If you can't actually reach single-user mode then the problem is something else.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:57 AM Lexi Winter <l...@le-fay.org> wrote: > > hi lists, > > i have a FreeBSD 15.0/arm64 system, an RPi4, which was previously > running 15.0 with pkgbase. i rebuilt main on my pkg server and updated > the RPi with 'pkg update', which only included ~2 commits neither of > which seemed like they had anything to do with booting, but after the > update, the system no longer boots. > > the problem seems to be a hang during kernel initialisation: > > https://www.le-fay.org/tmp/30d/9fE0NG.jpeg > > i am not really an expert on either ARM64 in general or on the RPi > hardware in particular. could anyone suggest how i could debug this > problem, e.g. to get more information about why the system won't finish > booting? > > thanks, lexi.
