Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 02:00:20 +0000 From: Collider <large.hadron.collider@gmx.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mini PC does not like FreeBSD Message-ID: <8805DEF3-1B8F-4DE9-8133-0ADCDA4B4237@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1vx06=U-MgM%2Beb3YXZcwSoAC_GxeP-rryPOxfGdyfNJNw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1vx06=U-MgM%2Beb3YXZcwSoAC_GxeP-rryPOxfGdyfNJNw@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Is the VGA connection needed for some esoteric purpose, or just for connecting a monitor? Are you able to tolerate using a doohickey that actively converts between DisplayPort or HDMI and VGA? "low-end Alder Lake" - what are you describing as such? Are you able to boot the thing off a jump drive and give some information about it, or otherwise reprint the specifications (or at least the exact model) from the box or the user manual? Probably try to get a new M.2 SATA storage module if you can, and reinstall to that. Le 26 mai 2023 23 h 30 min 00 s UTC, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> a écrit : >First, can anyone recommend a small, inexpensive mini-PC that will work >with FreeBSD? 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 -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. [-- Attachment #2 --] <html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Is the VGA connection needed for some esoteric purpose, or just for connecting a monitor? Are you able to tolerate using a doohickey that actively converts between DisplayPort or HDMI and VGA?<br><br>"low-end Alder Lake" - what are you describing as such? Are you able to boot the thing off a jump drive and give some information about it, or otherwise reprint the specifications (or at least the exact model) from the box or the user manual?<br><br>Probably try to get a new M.2 SATA storage module if you can, and reinstall to that.</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">Le 26 mai 2023 23 h 30 min 00 s UTC, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> a écrit :</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">First, can anyone recommend a small, inexpensive mini-PC that will work with FreeBSD? I do need one with a VGA monitor connection. (That limits options quite a bit.)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">This looked like a great $200 option for me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">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:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">OK boot -s</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">staging 0x5fc00000 (not copying) tramp 0x6e4c60000 PT4 0x6e4bd000</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Start @ 0xffffffff803b000 ...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">EFI framebuffer information:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">addr, size 0x4000000000, 0x1d4c00</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">dimensions 800 x 600 <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">stride 800</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">masks 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">IS there an issue with this hardware (which has probably never run FreeBSD) or did I just step into a bad batch of SSDs?<br clear="all"></div></div> </blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>
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