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I already have RELEASE-11.1 installed on a partition on a 2015 MacbookAir, which I boot using the Refind boot manager installed on my ESP (EFI System Partition) and boot1.efi which I manually moved to my ESP, and this works great! :-) I would also like to install FreeBSD-CURRENT on another...

Does FreeBSD have Persistent Changes option?

Hello, I have simple ZFS mirror from 2 disks. Contains zroot. Is bootable (GPT). 1) ZFS mirror was created during FreeBSD installation - I assume, that installer wrote proper gpt bootsector to both disks, so when one disk die in the future, system can boot from second disk - is this true? 2)...

Hello, I am thinking to buy a apu2c4 board to build a gateway at home. It has an amd 64 puma architecture. But from the page of freebsd, this amd architecture does not seem to be supported. So, which image should I use ? If anyone care, please feel free to propose another board as long as...

Hello, Today I upgraded my FreeBSD 11-STABLE to recent version r322164. After that I cannot boot from my pool: Booting from Hard Disk... ZFS: unsuported feature: org.illumos.sha512 ZFS: pool zironroot is not supported gptzfsboot: failed to mount default pool zironroot FreeBSD/x86 boot Default...

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 11 on the HP ProLiant Gen8 (G1610T). But it fails to boot on using the default FreeBSD bootloader. The drives as configured as AHCI devices via the BIOS. The boot drive is formated using a GPT partition table using the ZFS filesystem and the bootloader is set to...

Hi How can I found what has happen after boot? I mean I want to know after boot is /etc/rc.conf read or /etc/loader.conf or ...

Hi. While looking for a way to change screen resolution, I referred to the handbook but faced problems so went to a thread in here that suggested i typed vesa_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf then restart. Since the restart, freebsd just keeps rebooting with: module_register_init: MOD_LOAD...

I am running FreeBSD 11 on a Raspberrypi B+. I have added an externally powered USB drive and formatted it with ufs from the Raspberrypi itself. The drive is new: I bought it today and I performed a complete surface check before using it. So, after formatting it on the rpi I could mount it. I...

Sometime I encounter the problem with boot UFS in bhyve VM. When I start or restart the guest I think in my mind it starts but just It doesn't start completely. Connection to the console has no effects due to the "black" screen with no console messages. But when I start bhyve VM with console...

Hi. My machine is a 64bit with GPT partition table and NO UEFI support. I created 50GB partition and gave it to trueos in install. the installation create a zpool and all it wanted on that automatically. Now is there a way to add TrueOS entry to FreeBSD boot loader which is installed on the next...

I just performed a FreeBSD 11.0 install using the guided ZFS install option with encryption enabled. After installing, I'd now like to add an additional set of disks to decrypt at boot-time, ideally, using the same process as the root drives. Could anyone point me to the documentation as to...

Recently I decided to install the FreeBSD OS on my laptop alongside the Windows 7. Now I've got a problem. When I try to boot from DVD, it starts to boot, but after a few seconds my laptop goes on a black screen and it seems that the external DVD ROM is silent. I have waited for several minutes...

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...

Hello, I wanted to try out FreeBSD so I downloaded FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-mini-memstick.img and wrote it on my 16 GB USB key using 'Win32DiskImager' , all went smooth the img wasn't corrupted. I then tried to boot on my usb stick but the following message appeared gptboot: primary GPT table...

Hello, I have a problem with booting my Freebsd 11.0 box with zfs as zroot. The idea behind installation of new drivers for em0 was that I have some problems with it watchdog that is killing my dhcpclient and losing connection to that box: forteca kernel: em0: Watchdog timeout Queue[0]--...

I have installed FreeBSD-RELEASE 11.0 with MIRROR (Double Disk). SWAP mirror too. Mounting from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default failed with error 2: unknown file system I can by pass the problem by loading kernels, load /boot/kernel/kernel load /boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko load /boot/kernel/zfs.ko...

Hello, I read several times that changing ZFS checksum to sha512 could improve performances. So, on a FreeBSD 11 computer installed with a ZFS boot device, I did "zfs set checksum=sha512 zroot" and everything seemed fine. Until I rebooted. When I rebooted, I had errors like: ZFS: i/o error -...

I need to update the bootsector after upgrading zfs pool. In 10.3 the command to disable the Operation not permitted error was: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10 But that doesn't seem to work in 11.0: root@crayon2:~ # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10 kern.geom.debugflags: 16 -> 16...

When installing a new FreeBSD 11.0 with zfs root, the installer creates 2 zfs pools and puts the contents of /boot in zfs:bootpool/boot. /boot is a symlink pointing to /bootpool/boot Normal boot process then does not mount bootpool (nice little security extra there) so the /boot symlink points...