Bug ID 1596333: Boot appears to hang when booting in recovery mode

Last Modified: Feb 11, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG_IP_NEXT(VE/HW) TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
20.2.1

Fixed In:
20.3.0

Opened: Jun 13, 2024

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

- Boot appears to hang while booting into recovery mode or modifying default boot parameters to boot into recovery. Nothing is printed to the terminal.

Impact

Unable to boot into recovery mode.

Conditions

- Booting into any form of recovery mode. - Using the serial console or VM console

Workaround

During boot, via the grub menu, modify the linux command and remove "console=ttyS0".

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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