I have found an interesting quirk with my freeBSD installation, running on my SATA SSD, which I mount through an USB tray, directly to the USB port on the computer.
As long as i leave the second port of the USB tray open, everything runs fine and smooth. The moment I mount another drive in the second port, freeBSD only does the initial part of the startup sequence and then complains that it cannot go any further.
No further explanation given
Seeking for log files is not an option because the operating system itself doesn't boot.
Where in the documentation should I look for this type of issue?
#bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #AskFediverse
If you haven't done so yet and you are playing with Open Source Operating Systems, read this article about the BSD family
it is very enlightening, and worth every minute of reading it
#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #UNIX #History
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/
Due to my brain dead ISP which does not support IPv6 for clients in 2K25(!) I cant access my boxyBSD box.
boxyBSD is thus so far away from me :(
I have a client connection with fixed IPv4 IP somewhere, but it collapses when I use a free available IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel service.
Instead of sitting and twiddling my fingers on my Bass guitar(s) generating random() notes, I decided to get an image of the latest freeBSD and play with it locally, until I can get my ISP to provide all of us with a (set) of free IPv6 addresses because we pay them for a full service here in my country
>> log
$ wget -c https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
--2025-03-23 13:32:46-- https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
Resolving download.freebsd.org (download.freebsd.org)... 200.160.6.227, 2001:12ff:0:6224::15:0
Connecting to download.freebsd.org (download.freebsd.org)|200.160.6.227|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 4826406912 (4.5G), 4255655894 (4.0G) remaining [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso’
-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1 12%[++++ ] 559.57M 1.01MB/s eta 75m
<< ^Z
Yes they give a puny 1MB speed, you read that correctly
#bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX
TIL about lsd(1)
What an awsome addition to my lolcat arsenal!
The acronym is not correctly used by me in this case, because I **know** I used LSD in the 1990's (the command in a UNIX ENV:) and LSD is just as pretty as it was psychedelic in the last century!
`man lsd `
An ls command with a lot of pretty colors and some other stuff.
#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #Networking #IPv6 #IPv4 #ProxMox #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #Programming
TIL about BareOS
It is an amazing backup and restore solution for all platforms
You can download a live image of gparted and work with the latest version with ease. My debian based distro has GParted 1.3.1 which is quite behind v1.7.0-1
Im downloading the latest right now!
log
$ wget -c https://cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gparted/gparted-live-stable/1.7.0-1/gparted-live-1.7.0-1-amd64.iso?viasf=1
--2025-03-16 11:54:11-- https://cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gparted/gparted-live-stable/1.7.0-1/gparted-live-1.7.0-1-amd64.iso?viasf=1
Resolving cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net (cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net)... 146.71.73.5
Connecting to cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net (cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net)|146.71.73.5|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 589299712 (562M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘gparted-live-1.7.0-1-amd64.iso?viasf=1’
gparted-live-1.7.0-1 9%[==> ] 55.49M 286KB/s eta 28m 15s
^Z
Giving credit to the programmers of GPARTED(8)
gparted works its magic, by entering correct parameters to a suite of partition control & editing commands, which are sh envoked, so you can easily manipulate your partitions on all your SSDs HDDs from the comfort of your UI
When you want to batch manipulate partitions, you can study the log output and make sh scripts yourself, controlling partitions anywhere.
You also have the convenience of running gparted from sh so it still works its magic for you, without the UI!
I usually run cfdisk gdisk fdisk when I partition a fresh mechanical or SSD, later on I invoke gparted when I want to resize or move them
it also runs important commands at the end so that the kernel gets to know your new partition layout, which makes rebooting your machine to use them unneeded
I shrunk and resized a partition where I installed a program, which needed 75GB (*1024!) as installation space but only uses 56GB in the end. I left 12GB of breathing room on the partition after the shrink and of course grew the partition before with the same size, minus the alignment snip of 1MB
log:
myserver kernel: JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
myserver kernel: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, scrub, repair, quota, debug enabled
myserver kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
myserver kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
^Z
This is the accompanying video regarding the subject
This is how to move a government system from a proprietary software suite to a Free Powerfull OpenSource Suite without telemetry
County DE
Province Schleswig-Holstein
An important aspect is also that the tech giant that they were locked into, is forcing artificial intelligence upon these places, where leaks of information, due to the ridiculous and myticulous telemetry, are an absolute no no
While I'm busy configuring the VM I thought it would be good to get a nice taste of Italia with a compliments of Giovanni I got some Birra Moretti from a friend of mine in Europe
From the photographs and the hashtags it must be obvious what I'm doing. Creating a virtual machine with which I will go into simulation mode to ride beautiful machines of absolute maximum Torque and Power
When was the last time that you ran
`dmesg|less` on your linux system?
You **NEVER** did?
You dont know what you are missing my POSIX dweller!
Look at the awsome input to your brains!!!
Of course you should first run
`man dmesg` since you should not trust a command which uses sudo from a stranger on the internet
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dmesg.1.html
<< dmesg - print or control the kernel ring buffer
Yes on debian based machines, for some odd reason you are not allowed to run dmesg anymore as a regular user, so I run
`sudo dmesg|less`
Now you know what dmesg does, run it and learn to the bit, what happens on your linux machine when you cycle through the POST sequence
![Linux manual page for the "dmesg" command. The page is displayed on a dark background with light text. The title is "dmesg(1) - Linux manual page". Links to NAME, SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, COLORS, EXIT STATUS, AUTHORS, SEE ALSO, REPORTING BUGS, and AVAILABILITY are located below the title. A search bar is located underneath. The page includes the "NAME" section, which states that "dmesg" is used to "print or control the kernel ring buffer". The "SYNOPSIS" section lists different ways to use the command, including "dmesg [options]", "dmesg --clear", "dmesg --read-clear [options]", "dmesg --console-level level", "dmesg --console-on", and "dmesg --console-off". Finally, the "DESCRIPTION" section states that "dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer."](https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/114/109/767/324/484/745/original/4bbd0a7afb21580d.png "Linux manual page for the \"dmesg\" command. The page is displayed on a dark background with light text. The title is \"dmesg(1) - Linux manual page\". Links to NAME, SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, COLORS, EXIT STATUS, AUTHORS, SEE ALSO, REPORTING BUGS, and AVAILABILITY are located below the title. A search bar is located underneath. The page includes the \"NAME\" section, which states that \"dmesg\" is used to \"print or control the kernel ring buffer\". The \"SYNOPSIS\" section lists different ways to use the command, including \"dmesg [options]\", \"dmesg --clear\", \"dmesg --read-clear [options]\", \"dmesg --console-level level\", \"dmesg --console-on\", and \"dmesg --console-off\". Finally, the \"DESCRIPTION\" section states that \"dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer.\"")
![terminal window displaying kernel boot messages. The text starts with the line "[ 0.000000] Linux version 6.12.17-1-liquorix-amd64", indicating the kernel version. Subsequent lines provide details about the system's BIOS-provided physical RAM map, showing memory ranges marked as "usable" or "reserved" along with hexadecimal addresses. The output also mentions "ACPI NVS" and "ACPI data," suggesting information related to power management and system configuration. Finally, it notes "amd_pstate: driver is explicitly disabled," "NX (Execute Disable) protection: active," and "APIC: Static calls initialized."](https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/114/109/778/358/422/838/original/a8aa559a276fa95a.png "terminal window displaying kernel boot messages. The text starts with the line \"[ 0.000000] Linux version 6.12.17-1-liquorix-amd64\", indicating the kernel version. Subsequent lines provide details about the system's BIOS-provided physical RAM map, showing memory ranges marked as \"usable\" or \"reserved\" along with hexadecimal addresses. The output also mentions \"ACPI NVS\" and \"ACPI data,\" suggesting information related to power management and system configuration. Finally, it notes \"amd_pstate: driver is explicitly disabled,\" \"NX (Execute Disable) protection: active,\" and \"APIC: Static calls initialized.\"")
Since the /e/ Operating System is a fork from Lineage OS I was not surprised that my particular phone is not supported at this time
What is hot warming is the fact that capable programmers put their time, money, food & drink & sweat into enabling users to rip themselves from the grip of the Duo Poly which exists of Apple and Google
This is the main page of the Murena /e/ OS driven phones
