RaspberryPI is a cheap yet highly capable pico-computer that I recently purchased along with a 16Gb SD-card for storage. As my operating system of choice is FreeBSD, naturally I’d like to install the PI using just that. FreeBSD/arm is available in FreeBSD 10 which is still at beta-phase. For the time being the easiest way is … Read More →
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Installing FreeBSD 9.1 using root on ZFS and GPT disks
This is partly based on the excellent guide at http://daemon-notes.com/articles/system/install-zfs/begin. Boot with FreeBSD 9.1 installer and select Live CD when the installer starts. Identify the disks you want to install to. SATA disks are named /dev/adaX and USB pendrives and SCSI drives are named /dev/daX. dmesg|egrep (ada|da) Of which output could look like this: da0 … Read More →
Setting up a mirror through geom on a GPT labeled disk
Synchronise the disklayout gpart backup ada0 > /tmp/ada0.gpt gpart restore -F /dev/ada1 < /tmp/ada0.gpt Check that everything went as expected. gpart show Add the geom kernel module as loaded on startup echo ‘geom_mirror_load=”YES”‘ >> /boot/loader.conf Add bootcode to the second disk gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 /dev/ada1 Reboot into single-user mode. Then … Read More →
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