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I do need one with a VGA monitor connection. (That limits options quite a bit.) My decade-old server, an ASUS mini-PC, died a couple of weeks ago and I bought a Kamrui replacement. Looked good. low-end Alder Lake processor, 16 GB RAM and 512GB SSD. This looked like a great $200 option for me. The SSD is m.2, but not nVME. It has a SATA interface. I started seeing odd corruptions and missing files (like my ld-elf hints file). Decided that the SSD was bad, so returned the unit and got a replacement. It crashed and stopped booting when I was installing a number of packages. I see the following messages: OK boot -s staging 0x5fc00000 (not copying) tramp 0x6e4c60000 PT4 0x6e4bd000 Start @ 0xffffffff803b000 ... EFI framebuffer information: addr, size 0x4000000000, 0x1d4c00 dimensions 800 x 600 stride 800 masks 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000 IS there an issue with this hardware (which has probably never run FreeBSD) or did I just step into a bad batch of SSDs? -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 --00000000000091ba2605fca11eb2 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
First, can anyone recommend a small, inexpensive= mini-PC that will work with FreeBSD? I do need one with a VGA monitor conn= ection. (That limits options quite a bit.)

My decade-old server, an ASUS mini-PC, died a couple of weeks ago an= d I bought a Kamrui replacement. Looked good. low-end Alder Lake processor,= 16 GB RAM and 512GB SSD.
This looked like a great $200 opti= on for me.

The SSD is m.2, but not nVME.= It has a SATA interface. I started seeing odd corruptions and missing file= s (like my ld-elf hints file). Decided that the SSD was bad, so returned th= e unit and got a replacement. It crashed and stopped booting when I was ins= talling a number of packages. I see the following messages:
=
OK boot -s
staging 0x5fc00000 (not copyi= ng) tramp 0x6e4c60000 PT4 0x6e4bd000
Start @ 0xffffffff803b0= 00 ...
EFI framebuffer information:
addr, siz= e=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 0x4000000000, 0x1d4c00
dimensions =C2=A0 =C2=A0 800 x 600
stride=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 800
masks=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000

IS there an issue with this hardware (which has probably never r= un FreeBSD) or did I just step into a bad batch of SSDs?
<= /div>
--
= Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail:= rkoberman@gmail.c= om
PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055= 683
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charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is the VGA connection needed for some esoteric purpose, or just for connect= ing a monitor? Are you able to tolerate using a doohickey that actively con= verts between DisplayPort or HDMI and VGA? "low-end Alder Lake" - what are you describing as such? Are you able to bo= ot the thing off a jump drive and give some information about it, or otherw= ise reprint the specifications (or at least the exact model) from the box o= r the user manual? Probably try to get a new M=2E2 SATA storage module if you can, and reinst= all to that=2E Le 26 mai 2023 23 h 30 min 00 s UTC, Kevin Oberman = a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0: >First, can anyone recommend a small, inexpensive mini-PC that will work >with FreeBSD? I do need one with a VGA monitor connection=2E (That limits >options quite a bit=2E) > >My decade-old server, an ASUS mini-PC, died a couple of weeks ago and I >bought a Kamrui replacement=2E Looked good=2E low-end Alder Lake processo= r, 16 >GB RAM and 512GB SSD=2E >This looked like a great $200 option for me=2E > >The SSD is m=2E2, but not nVME=2E It has a SATA interface=2E I started se= eing odd >corruptions and missing files (like my ld-elf hints file)=2E Decided that= the >SSD was bad, so returned the unit and got a replacement=2E It crashed and >stopped booting when I was installing a number of packages=2E I see the >following messages: > >OK boot -s >staging 0x5fc00000 (not copying) tramp 0x6e4c60000 PT4 0x6e4bd000 >Start @ 0xffffffff803b000 =2E=2E=2E >EFI framebuffer information: >addr, size 0x4000000000, 0x1d4c00 >dimensions 800 x 600 >stride 800 >masks 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000 > >IS there an issue with this hardware (which has probably never run FreeBS= D) >or did I just step into a bad batch of SSDs? > >--=20 >Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer >E-mail: rkoberman@gmail=2Ecom >PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 --=20 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail=2E Please excuse my brevity=2E ------QLKTZ3FEYKSTX0G7OZLLEY8440T23N Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Is the VGA connection needed for= some esoteric purpose, or just for connecting a monitor? Are you able to t= olerate using a doohickey that actively converts between DisplayPort or HDM= I and VGA?

"low-end Alder Lake" - what are you describing as such? A= re you able to boot the thing off a jump drive and give some information ab= out it, or otherwise reprint the specifications (or at least the exact mode= l) from the box or the user manual?

Probably try to get a new M=2E2 = SATA storage module if you can, and reinstall to that=2E


Le 26 mai 2023 23 h 30 min 00 s UTC= , Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail=2Ecom> a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
First, can anyone recommend a small, inexpensiv= e mini-PC that will work with FreeBSD? I do need one with a VGA monitor con= nection=2E (That limits options quite a bit=2E)

My decade-old server, an ASUS mini-PC, died a couple of weeks a= go and I bought a Kamrui replacement=2E Looked good=2E low-end Alder Lake p= rocessor, 16 GB RAM and 512GB SSD=2E
This looked like a grea= t $200 option for me=2E

The SSD is m=2E2= , but not nVME=2E It has a SATA interface=2E I started seeing odd corruptio= ns and missing files (like my ld-elf hints file)=2E Decided that the SSD wa= s bad, so returned the unit and got a replacement=2E It crashed and stopped= booting when I was installing a number of packages=2E I see the following = messages:

OK boot -s
stag= ing 0x5fc00000 (not copying) tramp 0x6e4c60000 PT4 0x6e4bd000
Start @ 0xffffffff803b000 =2E=2E=2E
EFI framebuffer inform= ation:
addr, size       0x4000= 000000, 0x1d4c00
dimensions     800 x 600
stride         &nb= sp;   800
masks      = ;      0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000= 000

IS there an issue with this hardware= (which has probably never run FreeBSD) or did I just step into a bad batch= of SSDs?
-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail=2E Please excuse my brevity=2E<= /div>
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