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Hi, Yesterday i was turning on Linux Binary Compatibility and made mistake entry in /etc/fstab file. Boot stop's on prompt to type shell but 2 of my keyboard's does not work (missing kernel module or something) so i connected server hard drive by USB adaptor to VMWare OpenBSD instance and edit...

Hello. Trying to install FreeBSD 13.1-Release (FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) with configuration: Partitioning: Auto (ZFS) Partition Scheme: MBR (BIOS) Pool Type/Disks: stripe: 1 disk And I found that after the first reboot the system does not boot and a message is displayed: "Missing...

Hello people. I have a legacy dual boot BSD+Windows setup. Recently I did some Windows-y stuff and messed with the boot loader. Anyhow; In an attempt to recover my FreeBSD install I wrote a bootonly iso to a thumb drive, booted BSD and ran boot0cfg -B /dev/ada0 boot0cfg -m 0x5 -s 1 -t 90...

I have found out that the little netbook I use for learning about FreeBSD is capable (in theory at least) of running Windows 10. I am going to upgrade the RAM (to 2GB!) and add a larger HDD and give it a go but I am happy with the way I have FreeBSD set up so I would prefer to clone my current...

I've installed FreeBSD into a slice of a BSD disklabel partition, on an SSD in a laptop that uses BIOS/MBR firmware. After some consideration, I've installed the main FreeBSD boot loader to the SSD's start bytes - overwriting any thing Windows 10 had installed there. I've installed zfsboot to...

My trouble begins when I plug it in and observe that its MBR is aberrant. dmesg: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 da0: <EVISTR L157 2.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 16122MB (16508928 1024 byte sectors) da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE> GEOM_PART...

Hi guys. I am a newbie in the BSD world. I've been using Linux for a few year just as desktop stuff, no development-related work. A few days ago I decided to give FreeBSD with ZFS a try. Anyway, I installed FreeBSD dual booting Windows in a disk, the laptop is legacy BIOS boot with MBR partition...

Hello fellow FreeBSD users, I try to mount a USB stick to recover a geli key. This stick has a full install and I used to boot on it and run FreeBSD (version 7 or 8). When I created it I did not use slices and make it dedicated (I forgot why). The server hardware is broken and I can't boot on an...

Hello, I have an old IBM ThinkPad G40 with an mSATA to IDE adapter so I could use an SSD in the machine. The installation went just fine. However, when I boot the machine (from the drive), it says "Operating System Not Found". I'm not sure if this is related, but the BIOS does not have...

Just wondering if it has been considered to not auto select dos for the disk if the disk is detected to be over 2TB? GPT works but it'd be nice to have it just work automatically?

Hi, I don't know if I'm in the right place. I need your advice and your know-how. I would like to reduce my partition from 924G to 916G and increase the swap from 8G to 16G. root @ Firewall: / # gpart show => 63 1953525105 ada0 MBR (932G) 63 1953525105 1 freebsd [active] (932G)...

Hello everyone! I'm wondering if it's possible to install FreeBSD 12.0 on a GPT disk but on a server whose firmware is not UEFI. I found this thread that says it's possible. Can you confirm this or even add more details? Thx

Hey all. Sorry that my first post is basically a "somebody throw me a line" post...but here goes! :-) I'm currently running 3 OS's (2x linux distributions, 1x windows os) on my laptop. I also connect a 1TB external HD to it. On this External HD, I want to run FreeBSD and likely a couple linux...

Hello. I have recently setup FreeBSD on virtual box for the first time and am now trying to install it to my laptop; I want to dual boot it with Windows 10. So, I boot into FreeBSD and go to select the empty partition I made for it only to see this: I have had nothing but issues since EUFI...