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If you haven't already seen it, there is an excellent article on rc scripting: Practical rc.d scripting in BSD. Your script is fine. An alternative to using daemon would be to write your service to manage its own forking, setsiding and closing of file descriptors. rc supports running a...

Hi phaeton, welcome to the forums. I run a couple of similarly aged but adequate FreeBSD machines at home, one of them even creaking along with ZFS, so you won't hear any jeering from me. I imagine you are already running the most recently released BIOS for your motherboard but if not it would...

Hi Kalero, welcome to the forums. I agree with kpa; using the BIOS boot menu is the simplest way to achieve what you want quickly. Since it sounds like you are only getting started with FreeBSD, don't worry too much about chossing the "right" disk layout. Once you have installed FreeBSD...

Did you try the three things I suggested in my last post? I was hopeful that MBR partitioning with a slice (BSD label) and then a UFS partition underneath (ending up as /dev/da1s1a) would work. If you're not familiar with how to do any of these then just say and I'll prepare some instructions.

Welcome to the FreeBSD forums, Luzifer2222. I believe the NICs using the same driver are assigned a number depending on the order they are detected and that this cannot be configured differently. However, to address a similar issue, I make use of the functionality to rename an interface by...

abishai, vermaden: The configuration here actually boots from a UFS partition (where the kernel and other files in /boot are located), not a ZFS pool at all. For FreeBSD 10.1, the first stage UEFI boot loader only supports booting from a UFS partition.

Bucky, I'm pleased you found the HOWTO useful. Regarding choice of encryption algorithm I agree that the geli default of 128-bit AES-XTS (as configured by someone following the HOWTO instructions) is the one to choose. Before the performance improvements (see the reference from the "further...

I checked on my UEFI FreeBSD laptop and saw the same behaviour for all disks connected to my system except the disk with my FreeBSD system installed. The man page for gpart says it will show "all geoms if none are specified" but I agree the behaviour with multiple entries for some disks but not...

ANOKNUSA: I'm pleased you found the HOWTO useful even though you are not using GELI. Regarding the need for a /boot directory, the way I think about it is that the boot loaders are written for a standard system, where the kernel and related files are in the /boot directory on the root...

If I am reading the documentation correctly, the "stall" is is the recovery mode I was suggesting where you can reinstall the BIOS, but it sounds like you worked that out. I thought it was worth checking as I didn't see you mention trying recovery mode in your post on Intel Communities.

Having just looked at the source code for the first stage UEFI boot loader for failed-to-add-external-hard-disk-with-freebsd-10-1.52024, I suspect you are correct; your partitions on your hard drive are being checked for a UFS filesystem before the USB stick which is preventing you from booting...

Hmmm. So either my diagnosis is incorrect, or my assumption that the UEFI boot loader chooses the boot partition based on the GPT type is incorrect. I didn't have any ideas for a different cause, so I had a look at the source code for the UEFI boot loader. I had expected that it would examine...

At this point I am wondering whether I am more of a liability than a help, tobik :/ I hope at least Thierry Leloup will let us know whether my diagnosis is correct!

I stand corrected! Thierry Leloup, you don't need to destroy the partition on the external hard disk. Just change its type with gpart modify -i 1 -t linux-data /dev/da1p1 :) Edit: Corrected from "configure" to "modify" for the command before tobik can point it out. I'm obviously having a bad...

I was busy replying to the original version of your post last post... which I now see you have edited: So, with a quick U-turn... I believe that the issue is what I suggested in my first post; that the FreeBSD UEFI bootloader finds the UFS partition on the external disk first and tries...

What happens when you try to boot with the /backup entry removed from /etc/fstab but the external disk connected?

Can you provide some more information? What version of FreeBSD are you using? Are you trying to boot with the external disk plugged in? Or without it plugged in? What happens when the computer does not boot? What error message(s), if any, can you see? When does the computer boot...

Two potentials I can think of: Were you trying to boot without the disk plugged in? Unless you intend to leave the disk connected for every boot, you need to adjust your /etc/fstab entry to include the noauto option (see the fstab man page) and then mount it manually. Will the server boot at...

Some information on the FreeBSD IPsec implementation is available in the IPv6 chapter of the Developer's Handbook. You may be able to find information about the KAME stack, on which the FreeBSD implementation was based, on the old KAME project website. Whether any of this is relevant to...