Mountroot prompt with the new vt(4) console not working.

[Kimmo Paasiala]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
>>
>>> It's a PS/2 keyboard. Only the default VGA driver is used with vt(4).
>>> These are my loader.conf(5) settings on one of my systems:
>>>
>>> loader_logo="beastie"
>>> hw.usb.no_pf=1
>>> kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases=0
>>> kern.vty=vt
>>> kern.geom.label.gptid.enable=0
>>
>>
>> Does it change if
>>
>>   hw.vga.textmode=1
>>
>> is added?
>
> No difference. What is interesting is that I can hear the fans on my
> machine (mac mini 2011 model) pick up speed when I'm stuck at the
> mountroot prompt unable to type anything as if something was running
> in a very tight busy loop.
>
> -Kimmo

The Mac Mini in question is running the VirtualBox VM in case you're wondering.