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Current task: upgrading some FreeBSD hosts and jails from 14.3-RELEASE to 15.0-RELEASE.

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    @pertho OSS, but pulseaudio is what's on top because that's what most of the desktop apps expect to use by default
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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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    111ayuda | aide | Hilfe | aiuto | ajuda | hulp | hjälp | hjælp | hjelp | apu | pomoc | помощь | βοήθεια | yardım | مساعدة | עזרה | मदद | 帮助 | 助け | 도움recently modified <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=install&list_id=897815&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cbug_id&query_format=advanced&resolution=--->― or chronological <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=install&list_id=897815&order=bug_id&query_format=advanced&resolution=--->― the clock's ticking …<http://archive.today/2025.10.25-015845/https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/schedule/#62%25> | <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/schedule/#_additional_information>#FreeBSD #help #installer #bsdinstall