On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Michel Di Croci
michel.dicr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello!
When I boot, it takes about 5 mins before being up and running. Since
it's
my first FreeBSD, I didn't thought there was an
Hello,
How could I let boot the VM qemu from an USB key? I've checked the man
page but it is only saying ... Boot on floppy (a), hard disk (c), CD-ROM
(d), or Etherboot (n)..
any idea? thx
matthias
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USB is a disk
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote:
Hello,
How could I let boot the VM qemu from an USB key? I've checked the man
page but it is only saying ... Boot on floppy (a), hard disk (c), CD-ROM
(d), or Etherboot (n)..
any idea? thx
matthias
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Andrew Moran schrieb:
Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1 on a
USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and
successfully booting off of it?
If I remember right, enable the Open Firmware prompt to boot to other
devices than
Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1 on
a USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and
successfully booting off of it?
--Andy
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Andrew Moran wrote:
Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1 on a
USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and
successfully booting off of it?
I don't know about the Mac Mini part, but I certainly boot FreeBSD 7.1
from USB2 drive:
pe
Thanks Steve,
So USB2 from a PC should work, which is good.I had problems
booting FreeBSD 7.1 from even the internal drive on the mac mini until
I partitioned it with MBR (as opposed to GUID).. I tried installing
to a USB drive last night, but it doesn't seem to show up when I hold
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:03:36 -0700 (PDT), b...@vesterman.com wrote:
I've been trying to set up a system (7.0 Release) with full-disk
encryption, using GELI, and booting from a thumb drive. When booting, it
gets as far as asking me for the passphrases of the various encrypted
disks; when I
I've been trying to set up a system (7.0 Release) with full-disk
encryption, using GELI, and booting from a thumb drive. When booting, it
gets as far as asking me for the passphrases of the various encrypted
disks; when I give them, GELI indicates that it successfully attached to
each, but after
, using GELI, and booting from a thumb drive. When booting, it
gets as far as asking me for the passphrases of the various encrypted
disks; when I give them, GELI indicates that it successfully attached to
each, but after I've entered the last of them, the system puts out a bunch
of messages
Hi,
I have installed freebsd 7.1 on a 8GB usb flash drive. Now, it seems
that the freebsd loader is unable to identify the usb disk where is
booting from(da0s1a).
The loader runs fine from the stick but gets confused on the drive it
runs from, and the kernel it's not loaded.
Here is what
FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2
Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the
text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or
so in every line of text.
After login, once I type startx the X Window system seems to be OK
_and_ if I go back
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
On 2/2/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
Hi all,
I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2
Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the
text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or
so
On 2/3/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
On 2/2/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
Hi all,
I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2
Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all
Hi all,
I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2
Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the
text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or
so in every line of text.
After login, once I type startx the X Window system seems to be OK
_and_ if I go back
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
Hi all,
I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2
Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the
text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or
so in every line of text.
After login, once I type startx the X Window system seems
On 2/2/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
Hi all,
I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2
Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the
text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or
so in every line
Hello,
I am wondering about how to enable the vesa high resolution
videocontrol modes during the kernel debug message and initialization of the
FreeBSD operating system. Currently I am only able to apply the videocontrol
modes from the allscreens_flags in the global configuration file. Is
The booting process stops at the line mounting root ufs /dev/md0
(Starting with the option for no acpi )
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The booting process stops at the line mounting root ufs /dev/md0
(Starting with the option for no acpi )
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Xrhstaras wrote:
The booting process stops at the line mounting root ufs /dev/md0
(Starting with the option for no acpi )
We really need more info to be able to help you...
Is this booting off from the CD? What version of FreeBSD?
Any specific reason you are booting without ACPI? What
Hello, we have a PC with LSI RAID adapter and two SCSI disks. The disks in
the array have been giving hardware errors recently, so we've decided to
copy them using dump to another IDE disk. The problem is that when both the
RAID array and the IDE disk are plugged in PC, it's unable to boot
them using dump to another IDE disk. The problem is that when both the RAID
array and the IDE disk are plugged in PC, it's unable to boot off the array,
trying the empty IDE disk instead. Is there a way to boot from the array, and
yet be able to use the new disk?
simply read BIOS manual :)
I have an all-SCSI system with FreeBSD 6.3 on one disk and 7.0 on the
other. It booted using GRUB and worked OK.
I installed Mandriva Linux on the disk that had 7.0 on it (replacing 7.0)
The setup now is:
SCSI ID 15 73GB /dev/sda - running FreeBSD
SCSI ID 14 36GB /dev/sdb - Mandriva
The
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Mike Clarke wrote:
I'm getting frequent panics due to spin lock held too long when
booting my recently built 6.3 system with an Athlon 4850e dual core
processor on a Foxconn 6150M2MA motherboard (GeForce 6150 and
nForce 430 chipsets).
[snip
I'm getting frequent panics due to spin lock held too long when booting
my recently built 6.3 system with an Athlon 4850e dual core processor
on a Foxconn 6150M2MA motherboard (GeForce 6150 and nForce 430
chipsets).
FreeBSD curlew.lan 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #2: Sat Jul 12 09:43:21
BST
Mike Clarke wrote:
I'm getting frequent panics due to spin lock held too long when booting
my recently built 6.3 system with an Athlon 4850e dual core processor
on a Foxconn 6150M2MA motherboard (GeForce 6150 and nForce 430
chipsets).
FreeBSD curlew.lan 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #2: Sat
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Mike Clarke wrote:
I'm getting frequent panics due to spin lock held too long when
booting my recently built 6.3 system with an Athlon 4850e dual core
processor on a Foxconn 6150M2MA motherboard (GeForce 6150 and
nForce 430 chipsets).
[snip
Mike Clarke wrote:
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Mike Clarke wrote:
I'm getting frequent panics due to spin lock held too long when
booting my recently built 6.3 system with an Athlon 4850e dual core
processor on a Foxconn 6150M2MA motherboard (GeForce 6150 and
nForce 430
Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 8:56:47 AM
Subject: Re: PXE booting 7.0-R
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:34:57 -0700 (PDT)
mohammad khatibi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
try using this lines in your /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf instead of
yours : subnet [your subnet IP] netmask
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Sent: Friday, June 6, 2008 1:17:08 PM
Subject: PXE booting 7.0-R
Hello,
I'm trying to PXE boot 7.0-RELEASE, but it stops at a time.
At boot I see the following on the screen:
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS drive D: is disk1
PXE version 2.1, real mode entry
: Monday, June 9, 2008 8:56:47 AM
Subject: Re: PXE booting 7.0-R
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:34:57 -0700 (PDT)
mohammad khatibi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
try using this lines in your /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf instead of
yours : subnet [your subnet IP] netmask [your netmask] {
range [start range
], date)
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guessed BIOS device 0x not found by probes, defaulting to disk0
can't loader 'kernel'
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
OK lsdev
cd devices:
disk devices:
disk0: BIOS drive C:
disk1: BIOS drive D:
pxe
Hi:
I'm a newbie to FreeBSD and I've installed 7.0 on a USB flash card, but I
can't seem to boot off of
it. I don't get an error message, the PC just goes through POST, then
re-cycles and continues this loop.
I was able to get OpenBSD to boot off of this flash card, so I know my
hardware setup
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 08:55:41 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a newbie to FreeBSD and I've installed 7.0 on a USB flash card, but
I can't seem to boot off of
it. I don't get an error message, the PC just goes through POST, then
re-cycles and continues this loop.
I was able to get
but this did not appear to work as booting it still prompted
for an NFS path :
echo LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES /etc/make.conf; cd /usr/src/sys/boot/;
make clean; make depend; make; cp i386/pxeldr/pxeboot
/tftpboot/freebsd
So...
I set up /etc/exports with /tftpboot/ -alldirs ro, and started up nfs
Hello,
I successfully used /boot/gptboot for booting my GPT based installation
on a BIOS standard PC.
Now I'd like to make use of the great EFI system on my Intel Server
(amd64, not ia64!).
How does the EFI system find/boot any loader? I created a EFI System
partition on my GPT disk
I have set up a Linux Boot DHCP server (for other reasons that hopefully
will become obvious later) which points to the BSD based tftp server.
I did try to recompile the BSD pxeboot program to use TFTP as per the
following but this did not appear to work as booting it still prompted
We have several network services hosted on a FreeBSD system, and want it
to come up quickly, so that these services (dhcp, nameservice, nis, tftp
etc) are available when systems are restarting after a prolonged power
failure.
That is, several times a year we have multi-hour power failures
checking the existence of non-existant hardware and would not be appreciable
reduced with a faster CPU or disk. Are there kernel options that we could use
build custom kernel.
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We have several network services hosted on a FreeBSD system, and want it
to come up quickly, so that these services (dhcp, nameservice, nis, tftp
etc) are available when systems are restarting after a prolonged power
failure.
That is,
In the last episode (Mar 05), Daniel Feenberg said:
We have several network services hosted on a FreeBSD system, and want
it to come up quickly, so that these services (dhcp, nameservice,
nis, tftp etc) are available when systems are restarting after a
prolonged power failure.
That is,
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 21:06:39 Daniel Feenberg wrote:
About the only thing I can find is to reduce the 10 second boot screen
delay - but we need to cut more than 30 seconds.
The server is statically configured but the clients obtain network
configuration from dhcp and pxeboot with nfs
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:06:39PM -0500, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
snip
So, is there advice anywhere about speeding up the boot process? It appears
that most of the 1 minute 45 seconds to boot our system is wait time for
checking the existence of non-existant hardware and would not be
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Daniel Feenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We have several network services hosted on a FreeBSD system, and want it
to come up quickly, so that these services (dhcp, nameservice, nis, tftp
etc) are available when systems are restarting after a
I second the statement about BIOS checks taking a long
time. After working with many FreeBSD boxes, mostly Dells and a
few IBM servers, they can take forever (2 to 3 minutes) which
seems like forever when one is trying to get back on line quickly.
If one is using a serial console,
Martin McCormick skrev:
I second the statement about BIOS checks taking a long
time. After working with many FreeBSD boxes, mostly Dells and a
few IBM servers, they can take forever (2 to 3 minutes) which
seems like forever when one is trying to get back on line quickly.
If one
In response to Daniel Feenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Daniel Feenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We have several network services hosted on a FreeBSD system, and want it
to come up quickly, so that these services (dhcp, nameservice, nis, tftp
Bill Moran wrote:
So, is there advice anywhere about speeding up the boot process? It
appears that most of the 1 minute 45 seconds to boot our system is wait
time for checking the existence of non-existant hardware and would not be
appreciable reduced with a faster CPU or disk. Are there kernel
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Bill Moran wrote:
So, is there advice anywhere about speeding up the boot process? It
appears that most of the 1 minute 45 seconds to boot our system is wait
time for checking the existence of non-existant hardware and would not
be
appreciable
In the last episode (Mar 05), Daniel Feenberg said:
As for the suggestion that we delay the clients, we plan to enable
memory testing in the BIOS of the clients to delay the first request
for dhcp services. Any delays placed later in the boot sequence won't
help with the problem.
Another
Hello!
I'm having some trouble installing FreeBSD on one of my boxes.
When I try to boot the install cd it starts to boot but it reboots before
I can read how far it gets. I've tried disabling all APIC and ACPI options
in my bios. No go. Here is a dmesg from OpenBSD:
http://pastebin.com/f55031392
Hrm. If I remove my SATA disks it boots just fine, odd. This applies to fbsd
6.3+.
Seems there might be some issues with my sata controller then?
Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20579 SATAII 150 IDE Controller (rev 02)
My other sata(nvidia) connector is directly under the cpu fan so I'll have
to
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick.
FWIW, my cut/paste script for installing 7.0 to a USB flash drive.
This is adapted from a post by Ceri Davies (thank you!).
** This assumes the drive is at
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# set root password and timezone (optionally add users here as well)
chroot ${USBMNT} /bin/sh
passwd root
tzsetup
One error, the above should be:
# set root password and timezone (optionally add users here as well)
chroot
I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick.
Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following:
cd /usr/src
make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world
boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0
Or, is there an easier way to do this?
Thanks,
Jay
At 03:23 PM 3/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick.
Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following:
cd /usr/src
make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world
boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0
Or, is there an easier
I made a bootable system on a stick a few months ago. I used it to dd
clone a WinXP image to some Gateway desktops in a lab. I think I just
plugged the stick into my FreeBSD laptop fired up sysinstall and treated
the stick as a da drive that needed a full install.
Tim
Derek Ragona wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 10:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick.
Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following:
cd /usr/src
make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world
boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0
the stick
and have a complete system at this point. Setup of the root password,
users, groups, hostname, interfaces, timezone, etc not included.
Sysinstall or manual config (either from the initial host or after
booting from the stick) can get you the rest of the way. Or you may
discover
-ffast-math
COPTFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ffast-math
Any ideas of how to fix this? Thanks a lot
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guessed BIOS device 0x not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:
panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x6c23c
from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader
After updating a system to yesterday's -CURRENT, I get this
init: NSSWITCH (_ndispatch) his, password_compat, endpwent not
found, and no fallback provided
just after the device enumeration when booting to single user
mode. But not when booting to full operation
I recently upgraded from 6.2 to 7.0-beta4
Now, in /var/log/messages I invariably find the following messages:
-
Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All
I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep
all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS
[including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I
know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am
worried about the
archival copies for backup purposes
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For my dual-booting laptop ( FreeBSD , WinXP ) I'm
purposes
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For my dual-booting laptop ( FreeBSD , WinXP ) I'm using ext2 for my
data partiton
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:46:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep
all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS
[including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I
know I can do
Hi Pawel,
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
Daniel Marsh wrote:
Even if all data on a drive is encrypted, the partition table is not.
Software based disk encryption works on partitions.
That's not true. One can configure full disk encryption using GELI. To
do it you need to have a small
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 03:53:34PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
The pen-drive is not needed for your system to run and you can be easly
take it with you, which is not always the case for your laptop.
Are you saying that the USB pen-drive can be removed while
the system is running (after
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:46:53AM +0800, Daniel Marsh wrote:
Even if all data on a drive is encrypted, the partition table is not.
Software based disk encryption works on partitions.
That's not true. One can configure full disk encryption using GELI. To
do it you
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 03:53:34PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Are you saying that the USB pen-drive can be removed while
the system is running (after it has booted)? I remember
that it was impossible in the past to remove the root vnode
(which in this
The ONLY information on the thumb drive is /boot, a directory /keys and
an /etc that has only an fstab (to mount the .eli partitions from the
hard disk) and a loader.conf file to locate the keys.
My bad, my bad.
loader.conf is located under /boot of course.
Steve
The boot directory is different that root file system. /boot/ directory
is only accessed by loader before root file system is mounted.
Ah, right. I forgot that the /boot directory is only
accessed by the boot blocks and loader(8) during boot,
but not by the kernel, so it isn't actually
Steve Bertrand wrote:
I haven't tried it yet, but I don't think that /boot on the encrypted
disk is necessary. I will rename the directory and reboot and see if it
barfs.
It shouldn't be necessary. Once the kernel is loaded, the
system never looks at /boot again.
Unless, of course, you
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Steve Bertrand wrote:
I haven't tried it yet, but I don't think that /boot on the encrypted
disk is necessary. I will rename the directory and reboot and see if it
barfs.
It shouldn't be necessary. Once the kernel is loaded, the
system never looks at /boot
the key present?
I would assume as far as reading the / partition to get the kernel etc...
It would have read the partition table and the boot loader, known which
partition was the active partition and tried booting it.
Now, to identify what OS this disk has on it you can check the partition
table
booting it.
Now, to identify what OS this disk has on it you can check the partition
table and see what type has been set for each slice/partition.
You will be able to see that there is a BSD style slice on the disk just by
running `fdisk /dev/mystolendiskdevice`
You now know it's a BSD OS, you
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:53:49PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
Hi all,
I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI
encrypted hard disk, but am having problems.
You don't need to encrypt the
I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from
a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems.
You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt
separate slices. There is no need to encrypt stuff like / or /usr;
what is there that needs to be kept secret?
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:09:10 +0200
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:34:16PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
If you encrypted / and /usr, you might actually make the system more
vulnerable to a known-plaintext attack, because there are a lot of files
with
That's a heck of a lot of trouble to go to, considering someone would
have to steal your drive, alter it and put it back without you knowing it!
Essentially, what I'm looking for is thus:
- someone breaks into my always-locked equipment room
- someone steals the box(es) in question, which
As you can see only /home is encrypted because the rest doesn't hold
data worth encrypting.
Well, on mine it will.
I was talking about my system. Yours will of course be different. :-)
I know. I was not trying to be sarcastic in any way. Sorry if it seemed
that way :)
You can even encrypt
Hi all,
I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI
encrypted hard disk, but am having problems.
All of my searches lead to the same problem...GELI passphrase can not be
entered correctly upon boot. I have tried everything I have found on the
web (including disabling
On 10/10/07, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI
encrypted hard disk, but am having problems.
All of my searches lead to the same problem...GELI passphrase can not be
entered correctly upon boot. I have
Daniel Marsh wrote:
On 10/10/07, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI
encrypted hard disk, but am having problems.
All of my searches lead to the same problem...GELI passphrase can not be
entered correctly
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
Hi all,
I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI
encrypted hard disk, but am having problems.
You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt separate
slices. There is no need to
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI
encrypted hard disk, but am having problems.
You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt
Put all the data that really needs to be encrypted on a separate slice,
and encrypt that. Leave the rest unencrypted, especially /boot. As a
rule of thumb; don't bother encrypting anything that you can just
download from the internet. :-)
Fair enough, this makes sense. Thank you.
As you can
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:34:16PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
Put all the data that really needs to be encrypted on a separate slice,
and encrypt that. Leave the rest unencrypted, especially /boot. As a
rule of thumb; don't bother encrypting anything that you can just
download from the
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:18:38PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote:
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI
encrypted hard disk, but am having problems.
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 23:17:01 Roland Smith wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:18:38PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote:
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Mel wrote:
Encryption isn't only useful for private data,
it also reduces the risk of third parties replacing
your binaries with Trojans while your away.
If that someone can replace binaries on a running system, you're box has
been
to boot into the basic environment
to install from ended up booting the existing installation instead of
the version in the slice it was booting from?!
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Hello,
Okay so here is the situation:
Server has dead fd and cd drives, or maybe none at all. You want to
install FreeBSD
on it.
The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents of
a cd into, set it
to boot off that partition, reboot and it would boot up into sysinstall.
In the last episode (Sep 24), Jerahmy Pocott said:
Okay so here is the situation: Server has dead fd and cd drives, or
maybe none at all. You want to install FreeBSD on it.
The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents of
a cd into, set it to boot off that partition,
Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
Hello,
Okay so here is the situation:
Server has dead fd and cd drives, or maybe none at all. You want to
install FreeBSD
on it.
The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents of a
cd into, set it
to boot off that partition, reboot and it would boot
Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
Hello,
Okay so here is the situation:
Server has dead fd and cd drives, or maybe none at all. You want to
install FreeBSD
on it.
The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents of a
cd into, set it
to boot off that partition, reboot and it would boot
Christer Hermansson wrote:
Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
Hello,
Okay so here is the situation:
Server has dead fd and cd drives, or maybe none at all. You want to
install FreeBSD
on it.
The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents of
a cd into, set it
to boot off that
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When I configured gmirror on a server, I felt safer pulling
the plug than disabling it the normal way. That way I could
evaluate that:
1) my BIOS settings are correct regarding booting
from both disks.
2) gmirror is doing what I wanted it to do.
}}}
I suppose I could use kernel.conf and di
Modulok schrieb:
Before I invest significantly more time into my current gmirror
issues, I have but two simple questions for anyone out there:
1. Has anyone used gmirror for the root partition and been able to
successfully boot with one failed (or un-plugged) disk? It's the
latter part of
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