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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:55:01 +0300
From:      Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Scaleway ARM64 VPS can be depenguinated!
Message-ID:  <1532357701.75524.1@hraggstad.unrelenting.technology>

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Hi everyone,

I managed to run FreeBSD on Scaleway's cheap ThunderX KVM virtual 
servers.

The full notes are on their forum:
https://community.online.net/t/freebsd-on-arm64/6678

tl;dr:

- run Ubuntu, copy root fs to a tmpfs, pivot_root into the tmpfs
- download memstick image, dd it onto the disk
- resize the GPT using gdisk from 2 to 4 entries (related bug in 
geom/gpart: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229977)
- reboot, 'set console=comconsole,efi' and 'boot'
- install, using shell for partitioning, create a ZFS partition after 
the installer one
- in the post-install chroot, add 'opensolaris_load="YES"' and 
'console="comconsole,efi"' to /boot/loader.conf and 'zfs_enable="YES"' 
to /etc/rc.conf
- reboot and it works!




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