From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jul 13 17:31:25 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4020C36B4CA for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:31:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from kicp.uchicago.edu (kicp.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B59g01zgCz4Glw for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:31:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from point.uchicago.edu (point.uchicago.edu [128.135.52.6]) (Authenticated sender: galtsev) by kicp.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 60E794E65B for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:31:18 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Trying to install FreeBSD 12.1 on Librem laptop To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Valeri Galtsev Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:31:18 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4B59g01zgCz4Glw X-Spamd-Bar: + Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=fail reason="No valid SPF, No valid DKIM" header.from=uchicago.edu (policy=none); spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu has no SPF policy when checking 128.135.20.70) smtp.mailfrom=galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu X-Spamd-Result: default: False [1.35 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.20)[0.198]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.30)[0.301]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.75)[0.754]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:160, ipnet:128.135.0.0/16, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; DMARC_POLICY_SOFTFAIL(0.10)[uchicago.edu : No valid SPF, No valid DKIM,none] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:31:25 -0000 On 2020-07-13 12:15, Shamim Shahriar wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 18:04, Patryk Cisek wrote: > >> 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. :) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > Hi Patryk > > Could you please confirm if that is the last thing you see on screen and > that installation halts at that point? > > I have come across devices that issues that error, but have never known > them to halt at that point or not proceed further and do the job, hence > trying to confirm. > > Kind regards One of my relatives has librem laptop, I will have my hands on that laptop late this afternoon, and will see in I can install FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE on it. Will report failure/success and if I had to make any changes in opensource SeaBIOS that laptop has to successfully install FreeBSD. Valeri > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++