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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:10:53 -0400
From:      Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
To:        "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Trying to install FreeBSD 12.1 on Librem laptop
Message-ID:  <20200713131053.0aa4030b@scorpio.seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <b0977dd7-1b12-3286-0069-7fa03461e5c3@cisek.email>
References:  <b0977dd7-1b12-3286-0069-7fa03461e5c3@cisek.email>

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On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:04:12 +0000, Patryk Cisek stated:
>Hi,
>
>I'm new to FreeBSD and was trying to install it on my laptop bare metal
>for the first time. I've installed FreeBSD without any problems a
>number of times in a VM, but now wanted to install on bare metal for
>the 1st time.
>
>Right after the initial screen, I'm getting an error message, saying:
>
>Loading configured modules...
>can't find '/boot/entropy'
>
>Please, see the screenshot:
>https://people.debian.org/~patryk/tmp/freebsd_install_screenshot.jpg
>
>I tried googling for similar problems, but haven't found anything, I
>could hold on to. There was a similar issue on a Dell laptop
>(forums.freebsd.org), but they resolved the issue by tinkering with
>settings in the BIOS. Librem laptops are running SeaBIOS:
>https://www.seabios.org/SeaBIOS
>
>so I don't have access to any BIOS settings, really. I might be out of
>luck, running FreeBSD on that particular laptop, but wanted to ask for
>help here before giving up. I'd really appreciate any help/suggestions.
>:) Thanks in advance. :)

Why don't you have access to the BIOS?

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Jerry

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