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18.1 Legacy Series / Re: Booting issue on a HP T610 thin client [solved]
« on: May 10, 2018, 11:41:28 am »
@dmberry
Yes, it does make sense, and I too am trying to replace an alix (the home broadband has become too much for the old board ), and am using a quad port intel card to create different networks for my pi-farm, wi-fi guests, wi-fi home users and my other bits and bobs. Also, I have good news (I think) -- please read on.
@Everyone
Since the system was booting in "Safe mode" (and all the fun comments I have come across regarding the allusion to the same term used in a well known OS ), I decided to venture that path a bit more. After much googling, a site pointed me to https://github.com/lattera/freebsd/blob/master/sys/boot/forth/menu-commands.4th where I found the relevant section for "safe mode"
So I created a /boot/loader.conf.local file, containing
and the system seem to be working quite happy so far. Rebooted 3 times (once was pulling the plug, the other two were from console and shell) -- it is still booting OK and I have not observed any problem with its functioning so far. If something is wrong, maybe it is waiting for the opportuned moment to surface, but for now I consider this to be a step forward. Time to configure and put it into test bed to see how things go.
If anyone could please shed any light if I am doing something wrong in terms of firewall / OPNSense functionality by using the above method, would appreciate if you could please point me to the correct direction.
Thanks to everyone once again for your input and suggestions.
Best regards
Yes, it does make sense, and I too am trying to replace an alix (the home broadband has become too much for the old board ), and am using a quad port intel card to create different networks for my pi-farm, wi-fi guests, wi-fi home users and my other bits and bobs. Also, I have good news (I think) -- please read on.
@Everyone
Since the system was booting in "Safe mode" (and all the fun comments I have come across regarding the allusion to the same term used in a well known OS ), I decided to venture that path a bit more. After much googling, a site pointed me to https://github.com/lattera/freebsd/blob/master/sys/boot/forth/menu-commands.4th where I found the relevant section for "safe mode"
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: safemode_enable ( -- )
s" set kern.smp.disabled=1" evaluate
s" set hw.ata.ata_dma=0" evaluate
s" set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0" evaluate
s" set hw.ata.wc=0" evaluate
s" set hw.eisa_slots=0" evaluate
s" set kern.eventtimer.periodic=1" evaluate
s" set kern.geom.part.check_integrity=0" evaluate
So I created a /boot/loader.conf.local file, containing
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kern.smp.disabled="1"
hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"
hw.ata.wc="0"
hw.eisa_slots="0"
kern.eventtimer.periodic="1"
kern.geom.part.check_integrity="0"
and the system seem to be working quite happy so far. Rebooted 3 times (once was pulling the plug, the other two were from console and shell) -- it is still booting OK and I have not observed any problem with its functioning so far. If something is wrong, maybe it is waiting for the opportuned moment to surface, but for now I consider this to be a step forward. Time to configure and put it into test bed to see how things go.
If anyone could please shed any light if I am doing something wrong in terms of firewall / OPNSense functionality by using the above method, would appreciate if you could please point me to the correct direction.
Thanks to everyone once again for your input and suggestions.
Best regards