FreeBSD Archive

Hetzner and rescueing a freebsd root server

13 November 2022

One of my machines is a Hetzner root server where I run FreeBSD current (updated once a month) that servers as a virtualization host for couple VMs (that runn FreeBSD current themselves, updated usually once a week). The host boots of ZFS. Initially I deployed that machine in 2017 and for many y...

Ubuntu 18.04 vs. bhyve

17 May 2018

I wanted to give Ubuntu 18.04 a spin on my FreeBSD box and threw it into bhyve. There is a good tutorial for Ubuntu 16.04. Once I installed with that the vm got stuck in grub. The bhyve config file for an ubuntu 18.04 machine needs to have the following line for grub: grub_run_partition="2" F...