boot failure

I posted this yesterday as bug #295463 on Bugzilla, but am now posting here too just in hopes of getting more eyeballs on it (my main server is effectively dead due to this issue). Details can be found in the bug report, but the tl/dr is that after upgrading 15.0-RELEASE from p8 to p9, the...

Hello, a complete beginner here. I tried installing the MATE desktop following a bunch of youtube tutorials, but at first the startx command didn't work, and now everytime I try to boot into multi user, the screen just shows this:

After a power failure, my system booted with the following message: \ Some googling on the unsupported feature: com.delphix:head_errlog message led me to this helpful post: https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/upgrading-to-freebsd-14-how-to-fix-a-broken-bios-bootcode.html I followed the...

Hi, Since a new upgrade of my pc I've not been able to boot from ZFS if installed with the default ZFS (auto) option from the FreeBSD installer. The Bios / Firmware does not see the boot drive(s). Tried this with a single disk (Stripe) and with a dual disk (mirror). So far I've not found...

Hey! Let me give you a little background. I'm a Linux user. Not a very good Linux user. I prefer to point and click. I prefer to not deal with things and have my OS "just work". That doesn't mean I don't get dirty with lower level stuff, it's just that I'm not really experienced. However I've...

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...

Hi there :) My name is Stan from Germany, I'm 45 y.o. and experienced/advanced FreeBSD admin/user since 2019. (Previously admin/user of several Linux-Distros, until "systemd" occured.) So I'm familiar with UNIX-like systems... I'm working with FreeBSD workstations and servers since Version 12...

Hello. I have an x86-64 machine running FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE that I want to upgrade to 14.1-RELEASE. After running freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.1-RELEASE and freebsd-upgrade install, I rebooted my machine, only to encounter the error "Startup error in /boot/lua/loader.lua: LUA ERROR...