Opnsense Stuck at Booting on J1900 Motherboaard

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.

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