Introduction

I have an Asrock motherboard with a J1900 CPU.  I was setting up a new Opnsense firewall.  Well FreeBSD hence Opnsense has a video bug.  The firewall boots and runs.  You just don’t get the console screen. Below is a quick guide on getting the video working.

Steps

1. Power on the firewall.
2. Hit the spacebar at the boot screen.
3. Choose number 3 to set boot options.
4. Type the following:

   set kern.vty=sc

5. Then type:

   boot

6. Once the firewall boots login as root.
7. Select the option to exit to a shell.
8. Type the following:

   echo 'kern.vty="sc"' > /boot/loader.conf.local

9. Type:

   reboot

Conclusion

Sometimes those little bugs can be a pain.