OpenCore Logs stop printing to the screen but only to the USB log file

Sam1540 commented 1 year ago

I have reached out to several support forums (reddit & discord) and everyone is stumped by this issue and hence reporting here.

OpenCore-0.8.9-DEBUG

OpenCore stops displaying any logs to screen after a while and follow on logs are only written to USB storage.

User Impact: Since there is no more display in the screen, I am unable to select boot options

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opencore-2023-03-13-175941.txt

config.plist.zip

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz
dGPU: Nvidia GeoForce GTC 850M (Disabled using -wegnoegpu)
RAM: 2 x 8GB Samsung 1600MHz
Motherboard/Laptop model: HP ENVY 17 Notebook PC (228E made by Hewlett-Packard)
Audio Codec: ALC290
Ethernet Card: Realtek PCIe Ethernet Controller RTL8168/8111
Wifi/BT Card: Intel AC7260

Sam1540 commented 1 year ago

Resolved by setting in config.plist UEFI-> Output->TextRenderer to SystemText

Sam1540 commented 1 year ago

Resolved by setting in config.plist UEFI-> Output->TextRenderer to SystemText

mikebeaton commented 1 year ago

Since this commit https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/commit/b07843fe1d47454747ae4eda9ea0189aa9fb8c03 OpenCore has been more strict (also more correct, according to the pre-existing spec for the relevant settings) about whether it starts in text or graphics mode. Thus depending on your existing setup, you may need to modify your settings (either changing TextRenderer to one of the ...Text options, or setting IgnoreTextInGraphics to false) in order to get back on-screen logging after the point where OpenCore takes over console output.

cc @MagistraNocte who spotted the same thing here https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker/issues/2073#issuecomment-1473138687

acidanthera / bugtracker

OpenCore Logs stop printing to the screen but only to the USB log file #2245