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The PMBR has a "fake" MBR partition table for some limited compatibility. So tools that can only handle MBR partitioning don't mess things up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Protective_MBR_(LBA_0) But UEFI boot completely...

As I said, I just used firefox to connect to the local webUI of SELKS (cirrus). Yesterday, I checked anew this behaviour and saw the same. Note that it seems different with the latest version of firefox (not esr) on FreeBSD. I didn't see the same...

The efi partition is FAT32. UEFI boot doesn't use the master boot record. The (P)MBR is for CSM/BIOS boot.

I've never heard of EDL mode but may find out something about it from View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRkR5higEeo

EDL mode boots before the phone OS (phone apps/activation/bootloader status shouldn't matter) I haven't tried dumping userdata, but dumped modem partitions (seems same would work with a partition name change)

EDL mode boots before the phone OS (phone apps/activation/bootloader status shouldn't matter) I haven't tried dumping userdata, but dumped modem partitions (seems same would work with a partition name change)

I don't see any way to dump the userdata partition since none of the apps on the phone can be activated AFAICS.

Qualcomm SoC devices have a USB debugging mode (EDL) that allow low-level flashing and partition management (something like Odin/Hemidall for Samsung) When a device is booted to EDL mode, on a PC it'll let you do stuff like formatting and...

Not sure what ADP is, but has anyone successfully used it to boot another system? How difficult is it to solder out flash storage and then read it?

What does any of that mean?

Actually your link points to a rather good book, that is not actually about Rust! The original 'In Rust we trust' paper is here https://research.cs.queensu.ca/home/cordy/Papers/ICSE22-InRustWeTrust.pdf ... and Tess Marshall's book about...

Canary tag has bun-freebsd-x64.zip: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/tag/canary

Espionage724 at this point after 100+ hours I am still a newbie for real.... This game is crazy to master I've literally played only 10 heroes and I am 150+ hours in on ranked Herald level 2... All of this above is CHINESE to me.... ;) but I am...

General Dota 2 question, but can auto-courier buying be disabled yet and persist across sessions? 7.39 added courier auto-buying/delivering stuff which broke how I buy Octraine Core (I park it and buy the 1.7k piece first but auto wants to buy...

KeePassXC :cool: VLC's cool too! It's a fun gamble off-Windows if I'll be able to record an entire display or window :p Edit: The secret on openSUSE is PackMan for H.264 and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome :cool:

CIA probably has easier methods, but I'd dump partitions with EDL if it's a Qualcomm model then go from there (userdata's likely ext4 encrypted)

Any good configurator to set the font size of Qt programs to be able to read it? I would nominate that for sure. It should be just a command: /usr/local/bin/qt_raise_current_font_size. It can have immediate effect.

I'd bet I could but you won't pay me enough to do it

If you never have the device actually decrypt the filesystem while you are watching you need more than a logic analyzer.

I had a secret tool in 1990. It's called a "logic analyzer". I'd clamp it onto a 68000 processor and see all the signals going into and out of it. It also decoded it and I could see the code it was running. These things are nothing new and I'm...

Not if it requires a very secretive tool on part of the NSA.

One reason I asked that question is that the system kept complaining about an msdos partition somewhere, and I have not yet tracked that down. I modified the UEFI bios to permit hot-plugging of some of the storage media. I will add back into the...

Well you shouldn't. You are trying to fsck a whole disk with that command. You need to work on partitions: fsck -y /dev/ada0s1 or fsck -y/dev/ada0p1 Something is not right because you don't flash boot code and use EFI. One or the other.

No, that is correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition

I've used it for over 40 years. It takes maybe an hour to learn to use it adequately, and in 4 hours, you can learn to use it well. You can use it to copy and paste blocks of text between documents without a mouse, or, with a mouse and GUI...

If one is working in a professional *nix environment and doesn't know vi*, I will not hire them or at least look at them sideways. vim is "vi improved". Not necessarily "graphical". You don't need the gui to use vim.

Good for you. People are paying with increased energy costs, noise, pollution, hardware costs, ... Our children and grandchildren will pay for this with more global warming, storms, forced migration, ... It is not so much the AI slop that is...

It is likely that the NSA has tools that lowly agencies like CIA and FBI are not supposed to know about. That's the nature of the game.

Well, I am now back into my working FreeBSD desktop. In order to get it operating, I powered down the box by shutdown -p now, then physically disconnected all drives except the 320 GB HDD which had my working FreeBSD installation on it Then I...

I'm gonna plug one of my all-time favourite pieces of software again. Just because I think the guys who wrote it did such a great job; still being maintained too, hopefully. This one doesn't require 1TB of virtual mem...

firefox in its default config presents you some sponsored links which are easy to disable. I would definitely NOT choose chromium over firefox if privacy is important.

Do you have ublock origin or other ad blocker? Those connections might originate from ads on some site that was running in a tab.

Done. The command pkg check get me a lot of missing file and checksum mismatch, this is the end of the result: ... [skipped] xorgproto-2024.1: checksum mismatch for /usr/local/share/pkgconfig/xextproto.pc xorgproto-2024.1: checksum mismatch for...

Note that normally zfs won't *create* permanent errors so the issue may be the underlying storage damage due to the power failure. Is zroot a file on the Windows host or a disk partition? If it is a file, you may wish to run fsck equivalent on...

After doing gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot-pmbr ada1 It returns bootcode written to ada1 Attempting to boot from my Freebsd install now returns a different set of error messages: Invalid signature in boot block:0000 msdosfs /dev/gpt/efiboot (...

Yes, but it should more easy to replace local.sqlite with the backup, I think, otherwise I have to remember the commands to recreate it. However I have to write a note about this and place it on my local web to easily reach the solution (if it...

Unfortunately this is true. There's no pinball game either

This is already backed up daily as /var/backup/pkg.sql.zst and prev 7 days saved with suffix .1 .. .7. The code I showed above will recreate local.sqlite. No idea why the backup is saved as a script to "pkg shell".

Where I screwed up was turning on safe boot in the bios. And no, it will not boot from either drive: both return the same error message when attempting to boot from either one. FYI, the system also has a Windows 10 opsys installed on yet...

I don't see the relation with the power outage, but you should read this: 295463

I have installed nothing new. Anyways I have to add /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite in my backup. I make backup before update system and ports.

Since it is a VM, first I would run "zpool scrub" to ensure the zpool/zfs structures are consistent and not damaged due to powerfail. Assuming the FS is not damaged (or fixed up), you can try something like the following as root: mv...

pkg.sql.* is a compressed file created by pkg shell .dump. See /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/411.pkg-backup You should be able to restore it with .read. The /var/log/message file records the installation and uninstallation of packages. Please...

Well, at this point, I cannot see that I have much choice: I'll give that a shot. And, no, there were no messages before what I posted. I also turned CSM back on so I could see all my drives. Since, so far at least, I have been unable to...

Strange. Seems to come from sbin/fsck_msdosfs/boot.c, but it complains about the lack of executable sector marks 0X55, 0xAA (also known as "magic number"). Do you see something before this message? You can always copy pmbr with: gpart bootcode...

All the icons appear but they don't open. When I select them I get

It has been in this state for almost a year.

root0:~ # gpart show ada1 +> 40 625140256 ada1 GPT (298G) 40 532380 1 efi (269M) 532520 1024 2 freebsd-boot...