ISO: A1278 crash and reboot when SD slot is empty

Describe the bug It will restart immediately when entering the loading screen, Have tried “unset boot_mute” but it will restart immediately.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to ‘Live Boot’
  2. Click in
  3. See error

Expected behavior Into the desktop.

Version (please complete the following information):

  • Live ISO or installed system to disk: Live
  • FreeBSD version (System --> About this Computer): 13.0
  • helloSystem build (cat /.url): hello-0.7.0_0G147-FreeBSD-13.0-amd64.iso
  • Running in a virtual machine: No

Computer (please complete the following information):

  • Device: MacBook Pro A1278
  • Asus K45v

About this issue

  • Original URL
  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments: 52 (52 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I have not attempted a fix against the crash yet; someone with the affected hardware needs to test and tell me which USB Mass Storage Quirks are needed, and which one fix it:

https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/issues/335#issuecomment-1703776499

Conclusion: So it seems that on the A1278 (and possibly other models), there is a regression which makes the system crash and reboot if no SD card is in the reader. Seemingly it worked in FreeBSD 12.2 but fails in 13.x.