boot issue

Hi all, thanks for your help in advance! After a power failure last night, my BSD server will no longer boot correctly. It is a Dell R710 server with six disks in a raidz2 and a PERC raid controller where each drive is its own mfi device - I know this is not the optimal controller but it is the...

I've read dozens of ntpdate posts and have not been able to find a working fix for this problem. When I start up my server, ntpdate complains: 29 Jun 13:45:55 ntpdate[515]: no server suitable for synchronization found Like most posters, I am able to manually set the time using ntpdate with the...

Hi everyone. I'm a newbie in the *nix world and in command line, but my question is very simple. I would like to know how I can create an USB stick to boot FreeBSD - I don't mean a stick with an image or an ISO to install that, because the system is installed already, I want to know how to boot...

UPDATE 2019-12-16: rpi4 is not supported yet, the behavior described below is not a bug or some kind of anomaly. I am trying to run FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4, 4GB version (rpi4). I get no HDMI output or any other life signs during boot. What could be wrong? How to investigate? Here are my...

It was a profound surprise to me when I found out that MSI (current and past 2-3 generations) motherboards no long support booting from a PCIe HDD. For at least 15 years I have been using various MSI motherboards with many different PCIe controlled hard drives. My last MB, 990XA-GD55, had 2...

This is a cross post as I haven't got any solution and I'm badly in need of one. I've installed Slackware 14.2 in /dev/sda1 and x86Solaris 10 U6 in /dev/sda3 (sda2 is Linux swap)and boot menu was Solaris grub but, later deleted Solaris partition and installed FreeBSD12 (for i386) on the same...

We have a laptop with two SSDs. Originally, there was only one SSD, and it had Ubuntu installed on it. We added a second SSD (500 GB) and installed FreeBSD on 100GB of it. We had a little trouble getting FreeBSD to show up in GRUB, but we finally we got it working by adding some lines to the...

I would like to try FreeBSD after I tried out Linux. I have tested FreeBSD earlier on VirtualBox, and it succeeded. I have created my FreeBSD USB using dd as my first attempt on Kali Linux, following the tutorial. I have used FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT 2019/2/28 memstick.img as my release for testing...

I have a VM that I use for some testing, playing around and other non-critical stuff. Because it’s not important I tend to be quite reckless with it, updating for the heck of it, not checking UPDATING before I do etc. Now, however, I have run into an issue that is throwing me off a bit...

Hello, I have a server used for web hosting that is located in another state so I only have access via SSH. - I DO have root access. - I am NOT an expert and I only know the basics so please bear with me. - My system has been running great for a few years and I have upgraded FreeBSD...

Hi, This morning I've upgraded two servers with latest security updates which this time were 11.2-RELEASE-p5. Upgrades went exactly same way: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # reboot After reboot, systems got stuck in following screen: I recently made change to the...

I tried to install FreeBSD on a PC, which had Windows 10 on it. at first i installed FreeBSD using UFS file system and everything was Ok and it installed, then for some reasons i needed the ZFS file system, but after installing, it said: No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key...

Good day, everyone. I recently installed FreeBSD 11.2 on my desktop, however I have been having some issues. My system only boots on safe mode. Whenever I boot with verbose mode, I get stuck on the Core id Shift 1. I asked on reddit's FreeBSD subreddit and was told that it is probably a bug in...

I was upgrading from freebsd-STABLE from source for the first time following the handbook steps, when I got to use # mergemaster -Ui I was told that /boot should be no longer a system link and instead be a directory, not knowing at the time that in a encrypted freebsd installation /boot should...

I have finished installion but when i boot missing boot loader , this js twice times happened to me when i want to install bsd to my external HDD, Forst time I was tying install from iso file to bootably by dvd , And this is the second was trying install from IMG to my pen drive When i have...

Hey I have done to install FreeBSD on my external HDD, but I can’t boot and can't find any dual boot on it How can I can dual boot with FreeBSD? My BIOS is legacy, not UEFI. NVidia Optimus, my external HDD is Seagate, I never format that Seagate I saw the disk of BSD on my Seagate but it...

I have finish install bsd but there is no boot option on my computer ? Is there any missing file on ?

I am unable to install/run FreeBSD 11.1 (or FreeNAS 11.0) on my brand-new HPE MicroServer Gen10 containing an AMD Opteron X3421 with 16GB RAM (see specs). When installing either FreeBSD or FreeNAS the installer hangs just after it prints: pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 And with verbose boot...

So I have installed FreeBSD a few times now, and it goes fine except I don't have a bootable system at the end. I get a grub error. I was previously using Linux (but those partitions were deleted to make room for FreeBSD. During the installation I was never able to create a freebsd-boot...

Hi everyone! I'm a Windows user that wants to try FreeBSD, so I decided to install FreeBSD on a old computer that I own but this machine has no DVD/CD reader so I tried to make a bootable USB for this computer to see if it worked but I didn't. My question is: how I can make a bootable USB with...