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#FreeBSD and #Opnsense wizards - can anyone tell me why /boot/loader.conf keeps resetting itself? I need to load the re-realtek-kmod driver to enable the PCIExpress NIC’s — which is installed — but strangely after make the edits suggested in the port description it works fine, however on a second reboot it gets reset again. What do I do?

My friend @haghiri who was the developer of #Jabiros which was based on #FreeBSD , suggested that i start working on FreeBSD sources, well I had successfully created a custom iso for myself.

The biggest problem i have right now is the mirror speed and some ports which has issue with the custom kernel names.

This might be a hobby thing for myself, also i might make a video from it.

This is why i love #freebsd and #zfs . You have some time to do a major upgrade on a service in a jail? just do a snapshot and when you update fails and you dont have time for a debugging session just do a rollback

zfs snapshot zroot/bastille/jails/xxx/root@2delete-`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M`
zfs rollback -r zroot/bastille/jails/xxx/root@2delete-20250712_1754

Will have to work on in later

Yesterday, I experienced two disappointments, and in such cases, a bit of my enthusiasm tends to wane. It's been a long and winding week.
The fortunate thing, though, is that these very disappointments cause me to "withdraw" a bit into my own world. And this often means some cool "nerd" experiments. Plus, in the afternoon, some relaxation. And my wife is happy because she sees me doing my "nerd" things with a smile, and afterward, I have that sense of well-being to dedicate to doing some nice activities with her.

Currently, I have two PCEngines APUs (retired from client workloads but still in full form and energy). One with OpenBSD, the other with NetBSD, added to the FreeBSD one that's already been running since yesterday evening.

Finally upgrading my main server in the datacenter to #FreeBSD 14.3, but the `freebsd-update install` after the reboot has been running for 2 hours already. I'm not sure what's going on... It's not doing much it seems, looking at the cpu and io stats...

I guess I'll go and walk the dog and see if it's still not done when I get back.

Finally discovered the cause of intermittent network faults I have been seeing in the late afternoon.

The air-cooled #FreeBSD router was overheating and the CPU would step itself down to try to avoid melting down.

Little USB fans to the rescue!

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Sharing these because one one side a bit scary (the commands won't hold your hand), on the other side #FreeBSD really nudges you to RTM and it seems that what is written works. Just not that many guardrails.

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#FreeBSD zfs status command: "btw, some of your zpools don't have all features enabled, you should run zpool upgrade"

zpool upgrade: thank you for updating! btw, you modified the boot pool, you might need to upgrade your boot bios or efi code.

Forum: WTF were you upgrading the boot pool? But anyway, the man pages zpool upgrade referred you to work for real to update the bootcode (single command).

update bootcode command: no questions asked, you must be knowing what you are doing.

#FreeBSD forum: you can skip the reboot between the two install commands in the upgrade (it was last needed at FreeBSD 5 when some stuff changed in the kernel in an incompatible way)

my binaries: help!

FreeBSD mailing list: yeah for 14.1 you should have actually rebooted.

I will try out Bhyve for the first time this weekend to see how I like it. I've heard many positive things about it and it sounds like a powerful and feature-rich alternative to my current KVM/QEMU setup ...

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Ah, finally got this working on Aarch64 for the coming update of OpenJDK 24 for FreeBSD. This means stack traces on VM panics now should work properly also on FreeBSD/Aarch64 as well as Amd64. (Possibly also the other BSD's, but someone will have to verify that.)

Along with some other BSD related fixes and refactorings backported from mainline, I think version 24.0.2 will be the most solid OpenJDK for FreeBSD so far. It's still not on par with the platforms supported by upstream, but we're slowly getting closer.

#FreeBSD #OpenJDK #programming
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