if I'm seeing the boot log, but not the login prompt, can I guess what's the baudrate the kernel boot is using?

if you're reading the boot output, then whatever baud rate you're using on your terminal end is obviously correct

can you log in another way (e.g. via ssh) ?

RhodiumToad: that's what I'm trying to achieve. Making login with serial is needed to change rules and allow access via wan interface (freebsd box is a firewall)

ok. so go to the single-user shell and do stty -a and note the baud rate

if it's not 115200, then edit /etc/ttys appropriately

next question, is there an /etc/rc.local ?

and what's the last startup message that you see, before not getting a login prompt?

stty -a from single user mode: speed 115200 baud; 59 rows; 269 columns;

/etc/rc.local missing

and...?

and I might have just found a way to disable all the firewall rules and connect straight to web page without enabling console

steps: enter single mode, disable firewall, login via web, make ssh access and stuff permanent, never fix console

RhodiumToad: success, situation unlocked and I now can make everything easier

the first impression is that this specific freebsd version was resetting /etc/ttys each boot, but I can confirm your hints after upgrade

RhodiumToad: I can confirm that your suggestions about /etc/ttys were correct. Much gratitude

Heh, I was just thinking about rc and how I prefer it to systemd, but that dependency ordering and a single service stopping boot is kind of annoying.

Started to think about hypothetical ways to potential solve both of those and then realized it's same train of thought that started the process which resulted in systemd heh.

how are the misc/compatXXx packages made? Are they just manually extracted from the base.txz?

Also, what's the time frame for a misc/compat13x package to be available?

hi :)

i am preparing to install FreeBSD on my moms laptop

how do you think, will Wifi work?

I use cable on all my machines so I am not sure if Wifi will work

changes are good that there's no wifi driver at all

so, better to wait for 14.0?

i have read that FreeBSD developers had Wifi support as task number one for next release

but I am not sure what release it was about

temporary I can use Devuan for this laptop. But first I will check FreeBSD.

what is better to test? FreeBSD or NomadBSD?

wikan: you can try ghostbsd live to check what works

Anyone knows if 14 will support i915kms for Intel 12th gen ? i tested RC1 but coult not get it to work.. but maybe i did something wrong

wikan: wifi works.. unless you have some chipset that doesnt

harnan exactly what I do :)

this laptop is good one. Dell. I think wifi may work

if so, I will install ghostbsd, why not

probably should..

i am no sure, maybe original FreeBSD will be better and learn to configure wifi by my own hmmmmm

not sure yet

first, check

the installer from 13 has an option to configure wifi

if it detects wifi

and there is wifimgr in pkgs to list networks in a GUI

nice

didn't know because I stoped using original installer

oh?

i use my own installation script and now i am working on my own installer

... oh

neat

I just install by hand at the shell prompt, when I have to clean install freebsd or descendants

hmmm

i can see wifi networks

but i can't connect to

centrino ultimate-n 6300

dows anyone know what driver it may be>

>

?

wikan, What does "pciconf -l -v" say for it?

"Centrino" reminds me of the days when "NDIS" files were needed to be copied from Windows :shudder:

Title: (Text)wifi - Pastebin

good'ol iwn

sorry i had have to write this address by hand to the paper becouse i configure another computer :)

it doesn't work

i can see networks but cant connect. have no idea what to do

What is stuffed in "/etc/rc.conf" for wireless network configuration, subject to regional restrictions? Does "wpa_supplicant.conf" has the right information (password/key & SSID)?

s/has/have/

well I try GhostBSD

installed this distro of freebsd

in livecd I had network manager plugin and I could see networks

now, after installation there is no networks

i added wifi drivers to rc and rebooting

😐🤷🏽‍♂️

no way

i cant connect

instantly i get password promt again

Hi all, I'm here trying to get around the idea of unattended installs with FreeBSD. At the moment I see one needs to build an ISO with a script to install and configure the instance being provisioned. I was wondering if it there is a way to pass such script, as a kernel param during the boot process of the ISO ? thanks in advance for any hint

alebeta: the short answer is "no"

but there are a few mechanisms

ok, is not possible with the default or existing ISO, but with mechanisms, what do you mean? a work around to make that happen?

I'm looking things up to be more specific, but basically your options are:

- pass a custom dhcp parameter in (so your dhcp server "knows") and trigger a post-install script or function to run

- see if an iPXE type boot loader can pass iPXE parameters into the kernel

- use a metadata server that matches h/w id of some sort to additional install steps

those are basically in order of practicability

I do a lot of bare metal installs, but they're driven with a custom post-install script from things like cloudinit

alebeta: outline your env a bit more, maybe we can give you something useful

like, do you control dhcp? can you use ipxe? do you deploy from a web server you control?

I've used nginx in the past to redirect requests from specific servers to different install tarballs

and you can get freebsd to boot over nfs as well

for dhcp based hooks - cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=130…cf3fcb188ad5afe3e3187701f932434616b

Title: src - FreeBSD source tree

basically you need to write a small shim that uses man.freebsd.org/dhclient-script and parses /var/db/dhclient.leases.$IF to find a url, then fetch and execute that script

Title: dhclient-script

hi all

dch: in my environment, we do specify the iPXE infrastructure using Ansible. It means, it configure iso, preseeds(debian), kickstar(Red hat), and config the ipxe and dhcp server. Usually for debian we just pass the preseed file using the url parameter in the ipxe kernel option. Then from it, everything happens automatically

and yes, I own the pxe/ipxe server and the dhcp server

oh cool you have lots of options but I don't think there's anything explicitly built-in

2 things

the installer is automatable, see man.freebsd.org/bsdinstall for details

Title: bsdinstall

basically you put a file called /etc/installerconfig in the image and you're done

I highly recommend spending a bit of time learning about `poudriere image` github.com/freebsd/poudriere/wiki/poudriere-image.8-devel to build your images rather than fiddle with the installer

Title: poudriere image.8 devel · freebsd/poudriere Wiki · GitHub

alebeta: see PM for a useful link btw

also mfsbsd.vx.sk is very handy in general

Title: Martin Matuška - mfsBSD and mfslinux

dch: at the moment I had seen an automation with mfsBSD gitlab.math.tu-dresden.de/sdm/syste…blob/master/tasks/_buildinstimg.yml

Title: tasks/_buildinstimg.yml · master · Simple Deploy- and Management / system.freebsd · GitLab

that might be an option

louwrentius.com/freebsd-101-unatten…d-install-over-pxe-http-no-nfs.html is another nice one

Title: FreeBSD 10.1 unattended install over PXE & HTTP (no NFS)

ok, that link is quite interesting, was not in my search engine results tbh :)

if I were to redo an automated install from-scratch system *today* I would

- use iPXE

- boot loader.efi over network + mfsroot generated with poudriere-image (or equally a modified mfsBSD)

- use a small script like zfsinstall github.com/mmatuska/mfsbsd/blob/master/tools/zfsinstall to splat an image directly onto the h/w

Title: mfsbsd/tools/zfsinstall at master · mmatuska/mfsbsd · GitHub

yeah, I think I could detect with iPXE mac address of the server to be configure and then server a ISO image(previously made with mfsBSD) which is configure for the server with that specific mac address

the thing is, for creating iso images, then is "more space" and "more processing" than simply somehow providing the bsdinstall script on boot. which would be very combinient

but now is clear and creating ISO images per target server might be the way to go and am find with it, just wanted to discuss and see what's the best way to go

Oh I wouldn't have a per-server iso image

but each ISO should have its own bsdinstall script in it right?

oh wait

`/etc/installerconfig` is a literal shell script

maybe it can be only 1 script in 1 ISO, and then the script could fetch another script depending on the hardware mac address?

so make it query whatever you need

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

man yo are right

damn good to talk with other fellows

for ipxe, I have done this mmmmmm let me find it

freeside.skunkwerks.at/pub/ipxe/metal.ipxe I think this was it, I also have a qemu one for testing freeside.skunkwerks.at/pub/ipxe/qemu.ipxe

you can see here how it falls through each of the types

getting less and less specific

each one of these is a custom ipxe script

which IIRC you can see the custom ipxe setting in the installer, via `kenv`

alebeta: finally, look through github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz to see how they do handoff from their custom ipxe menu, to mfsbsd.

Title: GitHub - netbootxyz/netboot.xyz: Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.

dch: thanks let me havea look at the links

alebeta: don't miss the PM link as well

morning dch

haha yeah no worries :)

I ended up swapping to scfb to get X11 going for now.

I saw that

I am not smart enough to figure out snapshots yet apparently.

more studying on my part needed, more time needs to come out of thin air.

thedaemon: people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2021-02-23-sideloading-freebsd.html may be useful.

Title: Side-loading FreeBSD versions using Boot Environments - Random Musings

it uses boot environments to have 2 different freebsd versions in the same zpool, and switch between them at reboot

I'll check it out, thanks.

When I do `shutdown -r now` INSIDE a bhyve VM, it never reboots, but rather only shuts down. Anyone had a similar issue before?

antranigv: which OS

meena FreeBSD

FreeBSD 13.1, to be more specific

antranigv, same thing with my 9front bhyve VM, when I restart it it just shutsdown.

iirc, the common workaround is to have a script to start bhyve in an infinite loop

about 5 hours I spent on configuring Cinnamon and Devuan on my mons laptop

it is amazing how awesome is minimalist software I use everyday. Rofi, i3, vim, FreeBSD. Mostly terminal apps but not much apps at all.

so easy to backup, so easy to install, so easy to manage.

my mom is ex-windows user so I deviced to setup connamon. FreeBSD hasn't wifi support for this card so I used Devuan.

it is ok if peaople use KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, etc. But I definitely can't and now I am sure about this ;)

and of course FreeBSD. Work with FreeBSD is so much easier and nicer

babz: that seems like a poor workaround for something that should just work™

meena agreed. but for some reason, now it just works

antranigv: grrrr

bah. .

SO have apache24 with mod_php74-7.4.32_1 and libgd-2.3.3_5,1

phpinfo(); says GD is there and working.

But this app says it's not there: sye.dk/sfpg

Title: Single File PHP Gallery 4.11.0

So. . . WTF.

what does it say exactly?

What's the error message?

Well, here's phpinfo: trioptimum.com/~crtxreavr/phpinfo.php

Title: PHP 7.4.32 - phpinfo()

also no hits in that file for "gd" "GD" or "Gd"

The app just fails to do graphics functins.

um. .

which functions specifically?

You mean that php output?

It's right there: GD imagingRasmus Lerdorf, Stig Bakken, Jim Winstead, Jouni Ahto, Ilia Alshanetsky, Pierre-Alain Joye, Marcus Boerger

no, I means in the sfpg index.php

Okay, hang on. .

The app silently fails to do certain graphic functions.

There's a debug flag at the top of the script.

First glance, line 518 has imagecreatefromstring(), which is a gd function

If I enable it, I get: [Fri Oct 20 15:29:54.976327 2023] [php7:error] [pid 33168] [client 2605:a601:a61f:5700:264b:feff:fee2:22d4:56889] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function imagecreatefromstring() in /usr/home/crtxreavr/public_html/roxie/index.php:923

yep.

is graphics/php74-gd installed?

oh wait that doesn't exist

I have gd too, and my phpinfo() is a lot more verbose about it than yours

php74 is deprecated, no?

It is

That gd reference in phpinfo() is only in the credits section. If GD is actually enabled there will be a full GD section listing version and other info for it.

Okay, I'll target some upgrades and revisit then. . thanks.

right, which is why I think the graphics/phpNN-gd package is not installed

It's not. . . though I'm not sure it was needed in the original config.

I did actually have this all working.

At the time when 7.4 was the latest and greatest version GD worked okay no problem with it. That you are running 7.4 is not a problem for GD.

Something changed.

late joiner - GD = Gnome Desktop?

no, GD is a graphics (image generation) library

GD == Graphics Draw

ah - ok - sorry - cannot help then

but will listen intently :-P

Title: PHP: GD - Manual

bah. .

Okay, now the required upgrade to perl 5.5.36 is failing: bpa.st/GVGQ

Title: View paste GVGQ

d

CrtxReavr: turn off DTRACE option

Oh, in the perl5 config menu. .

WTF is that a default option?

why not?

I don't know why it doesn't work for you - old or modified fbsd version, or built WITHOUT_CDDL or WITHOUT_DTRACE, or...?

This is 12.4-RELEASE-p4

I don't generally go nuts with bleeding edge versions.

does dtrace -h work?

dtrace: failed to establish error handler: "/usr/lib/dtrace/mbuf.d", line 114: syntax error near "caddr_t"

I feel like I've fought this before. . .

Something with an addon malloc library or something.

I just noticed that all my SSDs in my R730 are '150.000MB/s'. It contains a mrsas0: <AVAGO Invader SAS Controller>

those numbers aren't necessarily accurate

RhodiumToad: This sounds familiar now.

Just reading this and now about to head out: forums.freebsd.org/threads/mrsas-and-the-mystery-of-lost-speed.79585

Title: UFS - mrsas and the mystery of lost speed | The FreeBSD Forums

RhodiumToad, what does WITHOUT_CDDL do? and how does OPTIONS_UNSET_FORCE+=DTRACE counter it?

WITHOUT_CTF WITHOUT_DTRACE WITHOUT_LOADER_ZFS WITHOUT_ZFS

Removed CDDL-licensed code. Basically from Solaris days, i.e. ZFS, DTrace, etc.