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Okay, folks — I've updated to the #FreeBSD 15.0 on my #Thinkpad X220

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    so Raptor gave me access to a Talos II to do some work on FreeBSD/ppc64le. first thing i noticed: the boot process is *very* unusual. it doesn't use the FreeBSD loader at all; instead it has a Linux-based firmware loader called Petitboot which can load and kexec() the FreeBSD kernel directly. however it needs a rather odd partition layout to do that:# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#/dev/nda0p2 / ufs rw 1 1/dev/nda0p1 /boot msdosfs rw 2 2i assume this is because Petitboot can't read FreeBSD UFS, so we need the kernel (which is in /boot/kernel) to be on FAT. Raptor suggested we should make the loader kexec()able instead, which seems like a good idea, but from what i can tell this platform doesn't use OpenFirmware at all, and i'm not even sure we have a PowerNV-native loader.(as you can tell, i know very little about either POWER or FreeBSD/powerpc, so this is going to be an interesting learning experience.)#FreeBSD
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    @tj @stefano In fairness, looking (from the outside) at the upgrade experiences of a number of #Mastodon nodes where I have accounts, the latest of which was an aborted 4.4 to 4.5 upgrade on one node (not this one) that lost a day's worth of data, I think that we can put this down to the general nature of the Mastodon upgrade process rather than the platform that it runs on.Mind you, I have yet to hear of a large complex WWW-involved system with SQL-back ends where upgrades are *not* fraught with pitfalls. (-:@wild1145
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    The new @BoxyBSD portal is absolutely awesome and I really, really love it! I was able to get two completely free VPS instances running #FreeBSD in Germany and Japan.Just one click, choose location and which BSD like FreeBSd, NETBSD or OpenBSD flavour you want and just 3 minutes later the mail popped up in my mailbox that it's already present.I do not know how @gyptazy is offering this but my boxes already run for over 2 years completely for free and I have never seen anyone complaining about anything. Looks like he really created one of the best free services - even it is more intended for educational purpose. The new portal is amazing and already works without any bugs (so far I could not find any).This evening is a big thank you to you @gyptazy