Re: Boot hangs up with Alderlake's intel GbE NIC

From: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon_at_dec.sakura.ne.jp>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 21:18:00 UTC
On Tue, 24 May 2022 01:31:31 +0900 (JST)
Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Vasquez <jon@xyinn.org>
> Subject: Re: Boot hangs up with Alderlake's intel GbE NIC
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 11:41:48 +0000
> 
> > Hey yasu,
> > 
> > I haven't looked into this but if there is a way you can disable the Intel nic's driver from loading (maybe
> > like this since it's early boot):
> > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-boot-with-messed-up-boot-loader-conf.64019/post-371681
> > 
> > That way you can at least get in and do further troubleshooting. You'll need another way to get internet
> > though, or maybe you can load the module manually post boot and see what happens.
> 
> On OK prompt I typed 'disable-module em' and them 'boot'. But onboard
> NIS is still ditected as 'em1'. Did I do something wroing?
> 
> ---
> Yasuhiro Kimura

Even if disabling module, possibly automatically re-configured
via /etc/rc.conf using devmatch. Try placing

devmatch_blocklist="${devmatch_blocklist} if_em"

line in /etc/rc.conf.

See `man rc.conf`.

HTH...

-- 
Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>