hmmm

I have serial working via a com port on the motherboard now

getty works on /dev/ttyu0

now trying to get this to work with loader I am struggling with

thats what I got so far

nothing shows up until getty

I wonder if its due to the wrong port address, lemme check what the manual says

uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0

from dmesg

maybe its because im bios booting!?!?

loader.efi shows: COM1 0x3f8 /dev/uart0

and the addresses match up fine

is there an easy way to go from 15.0p10 to 15.1?

pkg -oABI=FreeBSD:15:$(uname -p) -oOSVERSION=1501000 update -f -r FreeBSD-base

is what gemini says, is that a reasonable first step?

alright progress

I think this is stage 2

terminal is working in stage 2 and stage 3 (I assume)

I cant decrypt geli via terminal though

polarian: right, geli prompt happens before... there's a way to salvage this, though

one second

wait this isnt even possible?

it's your root fs that's encrypted, right?

yes

yeah, so your loader.conf that describes the serial port settings is in there

if you are going to send me the rootfs within a rootfs thingy thats not what I want

so theres no way for geli to be done via serial?

but there's a way to specify some config vars on the ESP instead

the boot.config?

/efi/freebsd/loader.env

you can't do module_load type stuff there, but you should be able to set the console esettings

er, /boot.config for bios boot, yes

im bios booting

wait wtf am I meant to stick in there?

-Dh -S115200

this?

this parser is... fun

-S115200 at the very least, yes

-Dh is serial and internal console

and -S115200 is probably redundant

boot2 and later seem to default to 115200, yes

welp added it to /boot.config

lemme see if this does anything

the joys of a multi-stage loader

yeah err... nothing

blank serial console

I wonder what happens if I send the password via it though

you're killing my buzz here. one second

:-p

I have to leave for a conf in 1.5 hrs

lol

oh shit I really should pack and get ready

I so want this to work before I go though

well the boot.config did one thing

5. Cons: Video

says serial and video

so it did something on level 2

stage 2

I think you might just want -P in /boot.config?

will try

moment of truth :p

oh, hmm. that should do the same as -Dh, I guess, it just also probes for a keyboard(?) so that it cn tell you if one is there

nah no dice

ugh so infuriating

so close but so far...

oh, heh, where is /boot.config?

ifk

idfk*

> When FreeBSD starts, the boot blocks echo the contents of /boot.config to the console. For example:

generally the rootfs for bios boots, so on the other side of encryption

there's no equivalent to the ESP and nowhere better that we can set boot args, I think

> Create boot.config in the root directory of the a partition on the boot drive.

wtf is the a partition

lol

> This file instructs the boot block code how to boot the system. In order to activate the serial console, one or more of the following options are needed. When using multiple options, include them all on the same line:

well seems like I need to figure out where I am meant to stick this mysterious file

on that note I shall return in 10-20 mins :p

you only get 4(?) partitions in mbr, so historically you use a bsdlabel slice and the 'a' partition of that is ufs

kevans: ah right disklabels

I knew this idk why it slipped out of my brain

well I dont know how this would work for zfs

im stumped

just gonna have to return to this on Monday when I am back from cybersec conf

hmmm, should pfctl -t blocklistd -sr show me all of the blocks currently in place?

hmm, probably pfctl -a blocklistd -sr (but i still don't get anything)

pfctl -a blocklistd/22 -t port22 -T show

Hmm, I'm having some issues as a result of D56390

my jails can no longer modify their pf rules for their wireguard interfaces

Only workaround is to reduce the jail's securelevel, which is not ideal

hmmm

within a jail we can't run freebsd-update fetch install?

i ran sudo freebsd-update fetch from within my jails and that ran, but the followup sudo freebsd-update install failed with operation not permitted. did i mess it up?

this is from my rc.conf pastebin.com/eAnMrc5c is there any wrong with this? because it wont set main ip address and ipv6 route since i upgraded to 15.1 alias ip except alias0 is configured

its on boot it wont do it...

i can enter it manually over ILO

n30: Just curious, any errors in dmesg or /var/log/messages

dnp1: nope not what i have found ... that would give me some direction to troubleshoot :(

n30: Looks like you might be able to get some debug with rc_debug="YES"

I've just installed FreeBSD for the first time, and my first problem is that I'm having trouble getting a (wired) network up.

I installed with the "mini" installer, so it managed to use the network for that, via DHCP.

Now I'm out of the installer, dhclient is just sitting there firing off DHCPDISCOVER packets and not receiving any offers.

However, I can see a (short, ~30s) lease for the machine cropping up in my DHCP server when dhclient does that. The machine isn't getting (or recognising) those packets.

I've tried manually setting properties with "ifconfig re0 inet 10.0.0.36/24 up", and can see that setting in the output of ifconfig, but I still can't ping the LAN.

Any suggestions on where to look next?

(I'm a 30-year user of Linux, so I'm happy with a lot of the concepts, but it's been a long time since I had to debug a network setup at this sort of level)

Odd that it worked during install, but not after.

darkling: when you did the network setup during install, did you let the installer autoconfigure the network setup or did you manually do it?

Yeah, I thought that.

glenny2: Autoconfigure.

Although I had to supply the DNS server address(es) myself.

darkling: I had network issues as well doing auto configure. The only way to fix it was to reinstall and manually configure the network setup instead. I also had to avoid doing anything with ipv6

No IPv6? Ouch. :(

Well, I'll try the install again and see where I get to.

It was weird. Wifi kept auto connecting to some network i never configured it for and it kept ignoring any changes made in wpa_supplicant.conf

Thing is everything worked fine during install.

This machine is a tower desktop, so there's no wireless at all.

All of these issues sound very bizarre. What's in your rc.conf and netstat -r?

Should just be set and forget in the installer. Did you set up ipfw/pf or anything?

Too late, I just wiped the drive and started again. But I didn't set up *anything* yet.

Did you verify the checksum of the image? And then after writing it to whatever medium you used to boot from?

I verified after download, but not after writing to the USB stick.

Worth ruling out stuck bits in the flash. Especially if it's NAND.

darkling: did you do the USB image or just burn the regular iso to the USB?

USB image: FreeBSD-15.1-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img

darkling: that's what I did as well. Huh. Maybe something is up with network autoconfig and that image?

I've compared the USB stick and the image (with cmp -n 678842880 Downloads/FreeBSD-15.1-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img /dev/sda) and they're the same.

(Running sha512sum /dev/sda wouldn't give the same result, because it's bigger than the image)

That rules out that, then.

Then it's back to the routes above.

I just set up manually in the installer, and did a ping, and I got one packet back from 22 sent.

So this might be hardware? But if it's that bad, why did the first install succeed?

What are you pinging? Your gateway? Something else on the LAN?

I'm pinging another machine on the LAN.

re0 has "inet 10.0.0.36 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255", and I'm pinging 10.0.0.17

Can you tcpdump on the other machine and see what it's receiving from that host, if anything at all?

Or download mtr-nox11 on another machine, transfer it to the problem machine and install it, and them mtr the other machine on the LAN.

Still though, odd that it works fine during installation, and then fails thereafter. Haven't seen that before.

It's having trouble in installation now, too.

 

Tried another cable/port?

Yes.

Is this Ethernet all the way to your gateway? Is it going over MoCa or anything like that?

What does netstat -r say?

Bog standard 1G ethernet all the way.

Now the machine's not booting at all. I think it is, like me, too hot.

Sounds like there's something up with this hardware.

Might be worth running memtest86 on it in case the RAM is dying.

The hardware had been running perfectly well for well over 5 years, so it's got a good history. Granted, something might have gone pop in the last year or so while it's been off, but it seems unlikely.

Its history is irrelevant here. Hardware can fail.

If it's not POST'ing, I'd start with memtest86.

If it's not POSTing, I can't run anything at all. :)

> Now the machine's not booting at all

What does this mean? It POSTs and doesn't boot FreeBSD?

I mean I hit the power button and all I get is a black screen.

Then it sounds like hardware failure or a BIOS problem. If you have a multimeter, might be worth checking the PSU, as well.

And 5 minutes later, it's now starting the install from the USB stick.

So I think it's just the heat.

If things are running too hot, you are going to continue having odd issues.

I've got another machine that I could use, with better cooling, so I might try that in a few days' time.

Speed up the fans if ou can.

More likely on that machine, it just needs the dust in the heatsink blowing out. I just don't have a compressed-air can right now.

darkling: If you have that need more than occassionally, a static-safe vacuum is a wonderful tool. So is an air compressor. The latter is probably not static-safe, but I haven't had a problem. :P

within a jail we can't run freebsd-update fetch install it seems. can we run freebsd-update -j <jail> fetch install on multiple jails at the same time if they have different base paths?

Anyone here set up mysql in a jail with a /var/db/mysql ZFS data set with recordsize=16K? If so, do you tweak mysql to use skip-innodb_doublewrite and other options?

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