Official PC-BSD Blog http://blog.pcbsd.org Discover the Desktop Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:17:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 PC-BSD at SouthEast LinuxFest http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/05/pc-bsd-at-southeast-linuxfest-3/ http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/05/pc-bsd-at-southeast-linuxfest-3/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 15:20:13 +0000 dru http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=1253 SouthEast LinuxFest will be held at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina from Friday June 7 to Sunday June 9. Registration is required, but free, for this event.

There will be a BSD booth in the Expo area, all three days. Several members of the PC-BSD team will be giving out PC-BSD DVDs, FreeNAS CDs, and other cool swag, as well as accepting donations to the FreeBSD Foundation.

Kris Moore will present “Automating the deployment of FreeBSD & PC-BSD systems” at 16:00 on June 7. Dru Lavigne will present “A Sneak Peek at FreeNAS 9.1″ at 14:45 on June 8. Ken Moore will present “Getting Started with PC-BSD” at 14:45 on June 9.

The BSDA certification exam will be held at 11:00 on June 9. The cost for the exam is $75.

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There will be a BSD booth in the Expo (booth #21) on June 1 where we’ll be giving out PC-BSD DVDs, FreeNAS CDs and other cool swag. We can also accept donations to the FreeBSD Foundation.

Kris Moore will present “Automating the deployment of FreeBSD & PC-BSD® systems” at 11:25 on June 1. Dru Lavigne will present “TrueOS and Warden: Easy to Deploy FreeBSD Servers” at 13:30 on June 1.

The BSDA certification exam will be held at 13:00 on May 31. The cost for the exam is $75.

 

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The magazine is available for free download here and Kris’ article starts on page 17.

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We’ll be giving out cool swag, PC-BSD DVDs, and FreeNAS CDs at the FreeBSD booth in the expo area. If you are attending the event, drop by and say hi.

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For those of you who like to compile new features in order to test them before they are incorporated into a release or a rolling release, the instructions for getting source have been updated. Any references to svn in the wiki version of the Handbook will also be switched to the git equivalent. If you have installed subversion before from System Manager -> System Packages -> Development -> Development VCS, you already have git as it is included in that meta-package.

 

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To add to the hardware list, create a wiki account so that you can login and edit the page. Since this list will get rather large, please add your entry alphabetically.

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systems after applying the latest FreeBSD update patches. We have found the problem and will have a bugfix issued shortly. Once this bugfix is issued, you may then continue re-applying FreeBSD updates. If this has affected your system, you can fix it manually following the directions below.

NOTE: At this time it *only* seems to be hitting users of 9.1-Release on 32bit / i386.

Fixing the problem

If your system has run into this issue, and can no longer boot, you can fix it with the following steps:

1. Boot your 9.1-Release DVD / USB media to the installation screen

2. Right-click on the desktop to open “xterm”

3. Mount your PC-BSD partition:

# mount /dev/ada0s1a /mnt
(Replace “ada0s1″ with the disk name / partition number)

4. Copy the original /boot/loader file
# cp /mnt/boot/loader.old /mnt/boot/loader

5. Unmount and reboot

# umount /mnt
# shutdown -r now

Followup:

A fix named “Boot-loader – beastie” fix has been issued and is being updated to the mirrors as of April 9. Once the update is installed, it is safe to do the freebsd-update.

Since it takes time to sync to all of the mirrors, be sure that it downloads and installs before running freebsd-update.

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