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Hi all. I'm running in to a rather frustrating issue and I'm hoping someone could provide some pointers for where to look next. I've acquired a small, low power system that used to be a VPN appliance from the late 2010's. It is based on a Supermicro X10SBA-L motherboard with a Celeron J1900...

I just got a Lenovo l440 today and it's old school couldn't tell by the pictures. It has all USB ports and a SD card slot.. I won't have a USB thumb drive so I'm trying to boot from the SdCard. For some reason at the boot menu there is no option for SdCard. Any help is appreciated

Hi, I am trying to mount two samba shares on boot. I can mount them as root in the command line with the system booted. my fstab looks like : //dlsa@WDMyCloudEX4100/Public /naswd/Public smbfs rw,-I192.168.1.67 0 0 //dlsa@WDMyCloudEX4100/dlsa /naswd/dlsa smbfs...

It had to be happen one day. I'm installing on a UEFI-only server, luckily it's without Secure Boot. I've loaded from mfsbsd, installed everything but can't boot from NVMe. Here's my gpart root@mfsbsd:~ # gpart show => 40 3750748768 nda0 GPT (1.7T) 40 532480 1...

Apologies if the title was vague, I'll try my best to explain. I'm new to the UNIX booting process and the components of such systems at this level. Resources I'm using: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/command-line-manual-installation-how-to-with-video-if-needed.83934/...

I just notice that my swap (encrypted, created during install with zfs auto install option) isn't decrypting or mounting at all. beastie@BattleStar-Lat54 --> ~ Ψ cat /etc/fstab < 21:36 > <...

Some are never satisfied. Now as I have Chuck smiling at me during boot https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/boot-menu-logos.81216/post-668631, I'd prefer it crisp. I suspect it gets blur from scaling. How can I find out the desired size (other than try and err or taking a photo and counting...

Hello, I have a PC where I have various linux distros. I wanted to install FreeBSD on a dedicated disk. So I grabbed the ISO, booted from USB, ran bsdinstall. However, my BIOS can't find that partition and I can't boot FreeBSD. I tried Auto-ZFS with: GPT(BIOS), GPT(UEFI), BIOS+UEFI...

I encountered a boot failure after switching the boot drive from a sata ada0 to a nvme drive nda0 with attaching/detaching, by executing the following commands: zpool attach root ada0p5 nda0p4 # after resilvering done zpool detach root ada0p5 Also, I installed a new ESP on nda0 mount_msdos...

good morning, nice FreeBSD community. The Context: Dell T640: CPU: 2x Silver RAM: 4x SK Hynix 64GB DDR4 2666 MHz HMAA8GL7CPR4N-VK TF AC HBA330: 8x HGST 800GB SSD SAS 12Gbps HUSMM1680ASS201 slot: 7 NVME-to-PCIE adapter: GLOTRENDS PA21 2 Ports M.2 NVMe to PCIe 4.0 X8 Adapter without PCIe...

My 1st post, and I'm trying to follow the rules, sorry if I make any mistakes, as my English is not good. I'm a beginner at FreeBSD, and knowing how to fix the boot and configure it is the basics of the basics to move on to greater challenges later MAIN OBJECTIVE: Know how to fix FreeBSD boot...

Hello Free Beastie Besties, I have a two zfs pool root-on-ZFS Debian 12.4 setup: 1G unecrypted `bpool` and 100G zfs native encrypted `rpool . (I got those names from following the framework in this guide...

Hi, I installed FreeBSD with manual partitioning (Because I am multibooting [OpenBSD,Linux Mint]). I setted them like this: ada0p1 (EFI partiton) (automatically selected as EFI Partition and mountpoint is also automatically set to /boot/efi) ada0p6 (FreeBSD partition. Uses UFS) ada0p5 (FreeBSD...

Hi, Yesterday i was turning on Linux Binary Compatibility and made mistake entry in /etc/fstab file. Boot stop's on prompt to type shell but 2 of my keyboard's does not work (missing kernel module or something) so i connected server hard drive by USB adaptor to VMWare OpenBSD instance and edit...

I am hoping that I can get some help with my system. I have a Supermicro X9SCM-F motherboard that suffered from this BIOS bug. Some details can be found here. I was not able to boot to my FreeBSD system at all and was not able to complete the BIOS 2.3 update as I was not able to boot into...

For years now, I've been setting up my FreeBSD servers with GELI encrypting nearly the entire disk (except for boot stuff). Long ago I did this manually, but in recent years I've been letting the standard FreeBSD installer process do it for me. When the machine powers up, it boots as far as...

Hi, My server has problems booting : Root mount waiting for: CAM Root mount waiting for: CAM Root mount waiting for: CAM Root mount waiting for: CAM Root mount waiting for: CAM Root mount waiting for: CAM Root mount waiting for: CAM Root mount waiting for: CAM Root mount waiting for: CAM Root...

Hello my new friends, it’s me again, I am now on day 3 of FreeBSD and I have almost set up all the important bits. I set up a RAID1 for my 2 disks that hold my home directory per the handbook, and then set up a geli partition on that mirror device as described in the handbook, and then I put...

Hello, I have a Supermicro X8DT3 server. I'm having issues to get a FreeBSD USB installer to boot on it. I basically downloaded the ISO: FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso Then burned it to a SSD drive and then attached it to an external USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure. I used "Balena Etcher" on...

I'm installing a new 13.2-RELEASE system with dual M.2 Samsung EVO 990 PRO 1TB SSDs. I'm attempting to make the second SSD a gmirror array, but it fails with: gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/nvd0: Operation not permitted. In my extensive searches, this appears to be that both GPT and...