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diff --git a/docs/bsd/freebsd.html b/docs/bsd/freebsd.html deleted file mode 100644 index 99960882..00000000 --- a/docs/bsd/freebsd.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,290 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html> -<head> - <meta charset="utf-8"> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> - - <style type="text/css"> - @import url('../css/main.css'); - </style> - - <title>How to install FreeBSD on a libreboot system</title> -</head> - -<body> - <div id="pagetop" class="section"> - <h1>How to install FreeBSD on a libreboot system</h1> - <p> - This section relates to preparing, booting and installing - FreeBSD on your libreboot system, using nothing more than a USB flash drive (and <i>dd</i>). They've only been tested on a Lenovo ThinkPad x200. - </p> - <p> - It is expected that you use text mode in libreboot (txtmode images), - for the early boot process in FreeBSD. - <strong>Booting the installer results in a red flickering text display, - and doesn't boot.</strong> - </p> - <p> - Thanks go to ioxcide in <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/53jt70/libreboot_and_bsds/">this Reddit post</a> - for the initial instructions. - </p> - <p> - TODO: test FreeBSD more extensively, and make sure it works (and fix it if it does not). - Instructions are provided here, to boot and install FreeBSD but we're - not sure whether it is currently fully compatible with libreboot. - </p> - <ul> - <li><a href="#prepare">Prepare the USB drive (in FreeBSD)</a></li> - <li><a href="#noencryption">Installing FreeBSD without full disk encryption</a></li> - <li><a href="#encryption">Installing FreeBSD with full disk encryption</a></li> - <li><a href="#booting">Booting</a></li> - <li><a href="#configuring_grub">Configuring Grub</a></li> - <li><a href="#troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a></li> - </ul> - <p> - <a href="./">Back to previous index</a> - </p> - </div> - - <div class="section"> - <p> - <b>This section is only for the GRUB payload. For depthcharge (used on CrOS devices in libreboot), instructions - have yet to be written in the libreboot documentation.</b> - </p> - </div> - - <div id="prepare" class="section"> - - <p> - freebsd.img is the installation image for FreeBSD. Adapt - the filename accordingly, for whatever FreeBSD version you use. - </p> - - <h2>Prepare the USB drive (in FreeBSD)</h2> - <p> - <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html">This page</a> - on the FreeBSD website shows how to create a bootable USB drive - for installing FreeBSD. Use the <em>dd</em> on that page. - </p> - - <h2>Prepare the USB drive (in NetBSD)</h2> - <p> - <a href="https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install_netbsd_from_an_usb_memory_stick/">This page</a> - on the NetBSD website shows how to create a NetBSD bootable USB drive - from within NetBSD itself. You should use the <em>dd</em> method - documented there; you can use this with any ISO, including - FreeBSD. - </p> - - <h2>Prepare the USB drive (in LibertyBSD or OpenBSD)</h2> - - <p> - If you downloaded your ISO on a LibertyBSD or OpenBSD system, - here is how to create the bootable FreeBSD USB drive: - </p> - - <p> - Connect the USB drive. Check dmesg:<br/> - <b>$ dmesg | tail</b><br/> - - Check to confirm which drive it is, for example, if you think its sd3:<br/> - <b>$ disklabel sd3</b> - </p> - - <p> - Check that it wasn't automatically mounted. If it was, unmount it. For example:<br/> - <b>$ doas umount /dev/sd3i</b><br/> - </p> - - <p> - dmesg told you what device it is. Overwrite the drive, writing the FreeBSD installer to it with dd. For example:<br/> - <b>$ doas dd if=freebsd.img of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1M; sync</b><br/> - </p> - - <p> - You should now be able to boot the installer from your USB drive. Continue reading, for - information about how to do that. - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - <h2>Prepare the USB drive (in GNU+Linux)</h2> - - <p> - If you downloaded your ISO on a GNU+Linux system, - here is how to create the bootable FreeBSD USB drive: - </p> - - <p> - Connect the USB drive. Check dmesg:<br/> - <b>$ dmesg</b><br/> - - Check lsblk to confirm which drive it is:<br/> - <b>$ lsblk</b> - </p> - - <p> - Check that it wasn't automatically mounted. If it was, unmount it. For example:<br/> - <b>$ sudo umount /dev/sdX*</b><br/> - <b># umount /dev/sdX*</b> - </p> - - <p> - dmesg told you what device it is. Overwrite the drive, writing your distro ISO to it with dd. For example:<br/> - <b>$ sudo dd if=freebsd.img of=/dev/sdX bs=8M; sync</b><br/> - <b># dd if=freebsd.img of=/dev/sdX bs=8M; sync</b> - </p> - - <p> - You should now be able to boot the installer from your USB drive. Continue reading, for - information about how to do that. - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - - <div id="noencryption" class="section"> - - <h2>Installing FreeBSD without full disk encryption</h2> - - <p> - Press C in GRUB to access the command line: - </p> - <p> - grub> <b>kfreebsd (usb0,gpt3)/boot/kernel/kernel</b><br/> - grub> <b>set FreeBSD.vfs.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da1p3</b><br/> - grub> <b>boot</b> - </p> - <p> - It will start booting into the FreeBSD installer. Follow the normal process for installing FreeBSD. - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div id="encryption" class="section"> - - <h2>Installing FreeBSD with full disk encryption</h2> - - <p> - TODO - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div id="booting" class="section"> - - <h2 id="booting">Booting</h2> - - <p> - TODO - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div id="configuring_grub" class="section"> - - <h2>Configuring Grub</h2> - - <p> - TODO - </p> - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div id="troubleshooting" class="section"> - - <h1>Troubleshooting</h1> - - <p> - Most of these issues occur when using libreboot with coreboot's 'text mode' instead of the coreboot framebuffer. - This mode is useful for booting payloads like memtest86+ which expect text-mode, but for FreeBSD - it can be problematic when they are trying to switch to a framebuffer because it doesn't exist. - </p> - - <p> - In most cases, you should use the vesafb ROM images. Example filename: libreboot_ukdvorak_vesafb.rom. - </p> - - <h2>won't boot...something about file not found</h2> - <p> - Your device names (i.e. usb0, usb1, sd0, sd1, wd0, ahci0, hd0, etc) and numbers may differ. Use TAB completion. - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div class="section"> - - <p> - Copyright © 2016 Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org><br/> - Copyright © 2016 Scott Bonds <scott@ggr.com><br/> - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document - under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license - or any later version published by Creative Commons; - - A copy of the license can be found at <a href="../cc-by-sa-4.0.txt">../cc-by-sa-4.0.txt</a> - </p> - - <p> - Updated versions of the license (when available) can be found at - <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode</a> - </p> - - <p> - UNLESS OTHERWISE SEPARATELY UNDERTAKEN BY THE LICENSOR, TO THE - EXTENT POSSIBLE, THE LICENSOR OFFERS THE LICENSED MATERIAL AS-IS - AND AS-AVAILABLE, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF - ANY KIND CONCERNING THE LICENSED MATERIAL, WHETHER EXPRESS, - IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHER. 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