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Re: [trinity-users] New topic: TDE in FreeBSD; was Re: [trinity-users] Dual booting Devuan and FreeBSD?

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 08:18:33 +0200
Anno domini 2019 Fri, 10 May 21:55:14 -0700
 Robert Peters scripsit:
> On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 23:10, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <office@...> wrote:
> >
> > Anno domini 2019 Tue, 7 May 22:10:08 -0700
> >  Robert Peters scripsit:
> > > On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 23:41, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <office@...> wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > Anno domini 2019 Mon, 6 May 21:59:18 -0700
> > > >  Robert Peters scripsit:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > Now running TDE under Devuan ascii.  SSD has lots of empty space in
> > > > > which I installed FreeBSD 12 from USB.  But it didn't install the boot
> > > > > selection menu.
> > > > > Entered the Live Disk command line and tried using boot0cfg, which
> > > > > created a minimal menu - to boot I still have to keep the USB plugged
> > > > > in.
> > > > > At startup I need to find a way to run FreeBSD on the SSD to be able
> > > > > to install TDE, etc.  Any ideas?
> > > > > Robert
> > > >
> > > > Could you pleas provide some more detailed information?
> > > > GRUB is installed on /dev/sda, grub.cfg is on /dev/sda1/boot/<...>, FreeBSD is on /dev/sda2 | /dev/ada0p2s* ? You are trying to boot from grub? Does the grub chainloader manage to boot the FreeBSD bootloader?
> > > >
> > > > Nik
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Nik,
> > > Thanks for the earlier reply.  I have tried various things with grub,
> > > etc... without success.  I will put this on hold for now and do more
> > > research.
> >
> > Ok, then you are at the same status with grub as I am. In the end I went the other way round and added GRUB to FreeBSD bootloader :-)
> >
> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-introduction.html
> >
> > > Robert
> 
> So, the outcome of all that is: I installed FreeBSD on all of a 500G
> SSD.  With some looking was able to install and use a desktop system
> (Mate), configure Wifi, the system clock, etc.  But I would really
> like to be using TDE.
> There are several posts from years back by people trying to port TDE
> programs to FreeBSD.  I have some software experience and would be
> glad to help if possible.
> Robert

you need to get "tde-packaging" from git, switch from master to r14.0.x, then you have a "freebsd"folder. go there, down to "dependencies" and build one by one ...


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