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Persistent naming of root device when booting FreeBSD
Because devices can be plugged and unplugged frequently, referring to the block device that FreeBSD should use as the root device could easily become unreliable. Is there a way to specify the root ...
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Issue booting headless FreeBSD system, requires monitor to boot
I'm trying to set up a headless FreeBSD 13.1 system. I've done so
successfully before on this particular machine, but for whatever reason,
after a complete reinstall, it doesn't want to boot without ...
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FreeNAS (11.2-U7) how to repair degraded boot pool that is on two USB sticks?
I have a Dell R230 which I've setup a few years ago with FreeNAS (installed version is 11.2-U7)
The boot partition was installed on a mirrored pool on two 32GB USB sticks.
/dev/da9p2 - SanDisk Ultra ...
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bxe0 and bxe1 to eth0 and eth1 respectively
I have a freebsd which has the network interfaces as follows.
bxe0, bxe1, igd0 and igd1
I want to move them to names like eth0, eth1 and so on. I know that I can do it in the /etc/rc.conf
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ZFS Mounting local filesystem ; eval : zfs not found - eval: touch not found - /etc/rc : date not found
My main FreeBSD 13.1 installation freezes at some point of the booting process showing these messages :
Mounting local filesystem
eval : zfs not found
eval: touch not found
/etc/rc : date not found
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Installing FreeBSD 13.1 fails right after booting
Machine:
motherboard: asus tuf gaming z490-plus(wifi)
cpu: i7-10700K
ram: 32gb ddr4
no dedicated GPU
What I've tried?
I've put on my pendrive (sandisk) with installed Ventoy, these files:
FreeBSD-...
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OPNSense (FreeBSD) doesn't boot from USB: stuck at "UFS found 1 partition"
I'm trying to boot OPNSense (the amd64 VGA image, 21.1, from https://opnsense.org/download/) from USB. The machine is fairly new (to me), but I've seen
it booting a Linux kernel successfully from a ...
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Dual boot Linux and FreeBSD through Grub
I am trying to install Slackware Linux and FreeBSD on a single disk. I have installed both the systems. I have also installed grub in MBR through Linux but it has found only Slackware Linux and not ...
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Where should I `dd` mfsBSD to get it to boot correctly?
I'm trying to install freeBSD onto a VPS (OVH provider).
So far, the third method from this response has come the closest to getting me where I want to go. I think OVH has a problem with nested ...
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Shrink FreeBSD partition
I have an img (made with dd) of a FreeBSD installation on a 1TB HD.
This time i need to use a smaller disk (500GB), and of course if I try just to restore the same image it won't work, but even if I ...
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Problems with FreeBSD on Debian's GRUB2
FreeBSD newbie here.
I have a Windows 10, Debian Linux and most recently, a FreeBSD installation on a 240GB SSD and a 1TB HDD reserved purely for files.
FreeBSD's installation went quite well since I'...
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What can I do from not booting Freebsd box command line
I got a message
Can't load 'kernel'
And computer is not booting. I have simple commands like ls and lsdev, but I don't have cd or cat. How can I find kernel and check if it is ok with these ...
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How to solve gptboot: No /boot/loader on 0:ad(0p2) issue while installing Freebsd?
I have installed FreeBSD 12.0 in vmware virtual machine. After installaion, I am getting below error while booting.
gptboot: No /boot/loader on 0:ad(0p2)
gptboot: No /boot/kernel/kernel on 0:ad(0p2)
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Can the contents of a FreeBSD jail be installed as the main OS?
Is it conceptually possible to take a FreeBSD jail and copy the contents to my root filesystem and expect it to boot up?
Note that because the jail doesn't have a kernel, I will have to copy that ...
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Installing FreeBSD on a VPS using KVM
I ordered a VPS with Debian 9 stretch from OVH, but they don't support FreeBSD, so they told me to use KVM, to install FreeBSD, but for some reason I'm failing at mounting the iso file.
I don't know ...
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