Beelink ME mini - FreeBSD
Hardware info on main page.
This machine runs the amd64 version of FreeBSD.
the system drive looks like this
root@kg-f7:~ # gpart show -p nvd0 => 40 1953525088 nvd0 GPT (932G) 40 532480 nvd0p1 efi (260M) 532520 1024 nvd0p2 freebsd-boot (512K) 533544 984 - free - (492K) 534528 4194304 nvd0p3 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4728832 1948794880 nvd0p4 freebsd-zfs (929G) 1953523712 1416 - free - (708K)
data drives
root@kg-f7:~ # gpart show -p nvd0 nvd1 nvd2 nvd4 nvd5 => 40 8001573472 nvd0 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 nvd0p1 freebsd-zfs (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd1 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 nvd1p1 freebsd-zfs (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd2 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 nvd2p1 freebsd-zfs (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd4 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 nvd4p1 freebsd-zfs (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd5 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 nvd5p1 freebsd-zfs (3.7T)
work log
2025-11-01: zroot - load the coretemp kld
root@kg-f7:~ # sysrc kld_list+=" coretemp" kld_list: -> coretemp
2025-11-01: zroot - smartctl info for system drive
root@kg-f7:~ # smartctl -i /dev/nvme3 smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE-p6 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: WD Blue SN570 1TB Serial Number: 22292K802394 Firmware Version: 234110WD PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x15b7 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x001b44 Total NVM Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 [1.00 TB] Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0 Controller ID: 0 NVMe Version: 1.4 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 [1.00 TB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: 001b44 8b4b035321 Local Time is: Sat Nov 1 18:19:25 2025 CET
smartctl info for data drives
root@kg-f7:~ # smartctl -i /dev/nvme0 smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE-p6 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: Lexar SSD NM790 4TB Serial Number: QER497R000872P220J Firmware Version: V4.0.4 PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x1d97 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0xcaf25b Total NVM Capacity: 4,096,805,658,624 [4.09 TB] Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0 Controller ID: 0 NVMe Version: 2.0 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 4,096,805,658,624 [4.09 TB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: caf25b 0310000124 Local Time is: Sat Nov 1 18:20:37 2025 CET root@kg-f7:~ # smartctl -i /dev/nvme1 smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE-p6 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: Lexar SSD NM790 4TB Serial Number: QER497R000899P220J Firmware Version: V4.0.4 PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x1d97 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0xcaf25b Total NVM Capacity: 4,096,805,658,624 [4.09 TB] Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0 Controller ID: 0 NVMe Version: 2.0 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 4,096,805,658,624 [4.09 TB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: caf25b 0310000127 Local Time is: Sat Nov 1 18:20:41 2025 CET root@kg-f7:~ # smartctl -i /dev/nvme2 smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE-p6 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: Lexar SSD NM790 4TB Serial Number: QER497R001073P220J Firmware Version: V4.0.4 PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x1d97 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0xcaf25b Total NVM Capacity: 4,096,805,658,624 [4.09 TB] Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0 Controller ID: 0 NVMe Version: 2.0 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 4,096,805,658,624 [4.09 TB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: caf25b 031000017f Local Time is: Sat Nov 1 18:20:43 2025 CET root@kg-f7:~ # smartctl -i /dev/nvme4 smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE-p6 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: Lexar SSD NM790 4TB Serial Number: QER497R001074P220J Firmware Version: V4.0.4 PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x1d97 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0xcaf25b Total NVM Capacity: 4,096,805,658,624 [4.09 TB] Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0 Controller ID: 0 NVMe Version: 2.0 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 4,096,805,658,624 [4.09 TB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: caf25b 0320000189 Local Time is: Sat Nov 1 18:20:46 2025 CET root@kg-f7:~ # smartctl -i /dev/nvme5 smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE-p6 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: Lexar SSD NM790 4TB Serial Number: QER497R002315P220J Firmware Version: V4.0.4 PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x1d97 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0xcaf25b Total NVM Capacity: 4,096,805,658,624 [4.09 TB] Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0 Controller ID: 0 NVMe Version: 2.0 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 4,096,805,658,624 [4.09 TB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: caf25b 0320000520 Local Time is: Sat Nov 1 18:20:49 2025 CET
2025-11-01: zroot - pkg - install smartmontools
Nov 1 18:16:22 kg-f7 pkg[1721]: smartmontools-7.5 installed
enable smartd
root@kg-f7:~ # sysrc smartd_enable="YES" smartd_enable: -> YES
2025-11-01: zroot - reboot, FreeBSD 13.5-release-p6 is in
root@kg-f7:~ # freebsd-version -ku 13.5-RELEASE-p6 13.5-RELEASE-p6
kernel
root@kg-f7:~ # uname -a FreeBSD kg-f7.kg4.no 13.5-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC amd64
2025-11-01: zroot - enable mdns name resolution by editing /etc/nsswitch.conf before
root@kg-f7:~ # cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep ^hosts hosts: files dns
after
root@kg-f7:~ # cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep ^hosts hosts: files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns
2025-11-01: zroot - enable avahi (requires dbus)
root@kg-f7:~ # sysrc dbus_enable="YES" dbus_enable: -> YES root@kg-f7:~ # sysrc avahi_daemon_enable="YES" avahi_daemon_enable: -> YES
2025-11-01: zroot - pkg - install nss_mdns (and avahi-app)
Nov 1 17:55:45 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: expat-2.7.3 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: gettext-runtime-0.23.1 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: gnome_subr-1.0 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libICE-1.1.2,1 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libSM-1.2.6,1 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libXau-1.0.12 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libdaemon-0.14_1 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libevent-2.1.12 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libffi-3.5.1 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libiconv-1.17_1 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libinotify-20240724_3 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: mpdecimal-4.0.1 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: pcre2-10.46 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: readline-8.2.13_2 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: gdbm-1.26 installed Nov 1 17:55:46 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libxml2-2.14.5 installed Nov 1 17:55:48 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: python311-3.11.13_1 installed Nov 1 17:55:48 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: py311-packaging-25.0 installed Nov 1 17:55:49 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: glib-2.84.1_3,2 installed Nov 1 17:55:49 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: xorgproto-2024.1 installed Nov 1 17:55:49 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libXdmcp-1.1.5 installed Nov 1 17:55:49 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libxcb-1.17.0 installed Nov 1 17:55:49 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: libX11-1.8.12,1 installed Nov 1 17:55:50 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: dbus-1.16.2_4,1 installed Nov 1 17:55:50 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: dbus-glib-0.114 installed Nov 1 17:55:50 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: avahi-app-0.8_6 installed Nov 1 17:55:50 kg-f7 pkg[7470]: nss_mdns-0.14.1.20200624_1 installed
2025-11-01: zroot - pkg - upgrade
Nov 1 17:52:13 kg-f7 pkg[7346]: pkg upgraded: 2.2.2 -> 2.3.1_1 Nov 1 17:52:23 kg-f7 pkg[7375]: libunistring upgraded: 1.3 -> 1.4.1 Nov 1 17:52:23 kg-f7 pkg[7375]: curl-8.14.1 deinstalled Nov 1 17:52:23 kg-f7 pkg[7375]: libnghttp2 upgraded: 1.66.0 -> 1.67.0 Nov 1 17:52:23 kg-f7 pkg[7375]: curl-8.16.0 installed
2025-11-01: zroot - freebsd-update fetch
root@kg-f7:~ # freebsd-update fetch src component not installed, skipped [..] The following files will be updated as part of updating to 13.5-RELEASE-p6: /bin/freebsd-version /boot/kernel/kernel /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/kernel.debug
install
root@kg-f7:~ # freebsd-update install src component not installed, skipped Creating snapshot of existing boot environment... done. Installing updates... Restarting sshd after upgrade Performing sanity check on sshd configuration. Stopping sshd. Waiting for PIDS: 1610. Performing sanity check on sshd configuration. Starting sshd. Scanning //usr/share/certs/blacklisted for certificates... Scanning //usr/share/certs/trusted for certificates... done.
2025-11-01: zroot - fix DHCP setup (also update on DHCP server side)
root@kg-f7:~ # tail -1 /etc/dhclient.conf send dhcp-client-identifier "kg-f7.kg4.no";
2025-11-01: zroot - zfs - situation
root@kg-f7:~ # zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT z7 18.6T 1.05M 18.6T - - 0% 0% 1.00x ONLINE - zroot 928G 1.50G 927G - - 0% 0% 1.00x ONLINE -
df info
root@kg-f7:~ # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on zroot/ROOT/default 899G 1.3G 898G 0% / devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /dev /dev/gpt/efiboot0 260M 1.7M 258M 1% /boot/efi zroot/tmp 898G 104K 898G 0% /tmp zroot 898G 96K 898G 0% /zroot zroot/var/log 898G 316K 898G 0% /var/log zroot/var/audit 898G 96K 898G 0% /var/audit zroot/usr/ports 898G 96K 898G 0% /usr/ports zroot/usr/home 898G 140K 898G 0% /usr/home zroot/var/crash 898G 96K 898G 0% /var/crash zroot/var/mail 898G 96K 898G 0% /var/mail zroot/usr/src 898G 96K 898G 0% /usr/src zroot/var/tmp 898G 96K 898G 0% /var/tmp z7 11T 171K 11T 0% /z7
2025-11-01: zroot - data pool creation - dry run
root@kg-f7:~ # zpool create -n z7 raidz2 /dev/nvd0p1 /dev/nvd1p1 /dev/nvd2p1 /dev/nvd4p1 /dev/nvd5p1 would create 'z7' with the following layout: z7 raidz2 nvd0p1 nvd1p1 nvd2p1 nvd4p1 nvd5p1
do it
root@kg-f7:~ # zpool create z7 raidz2 /dev/nvd0p1 /dev/nvd1p1 /dev/nvd2p1 /dev/nvd4p1 /dev/nvd5p1
zpool status z7
root@kg-f7:~ # zpool status z7 pool: z7 state: ONLINE config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM z7 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 nvd0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 nvd1p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 nvd2p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 nvd4p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 nvd5p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors
zpool history z7
root@kg-f7:~ # zpool history z7 History for 'z7': 2025-11-01.17:07:43 zpool create z7 raidz2 /dev/nvd0p1 /dev/nvd1p1 /dev/nvd2p1 /dev/nvd4p1 /dev/nvd5p1
2025-11-01: zroot - add freebsd-zfs partitions to each data ssd
root@kg-f7:~ # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs nvd0 nvd0p1 added root@kg-f7:~ # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs nvd1 nvd1p1 added root@kg-f7:~ # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs nvd2 nvd2p1 added root@kg-f7:~ # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs nvd4 nvd4p1 added root@kg-f7:~ # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs nvd5 nvd5p1 added
and now it looks like this
root@kg-f7:~ # gpart show -p => 34 122142653 mmcsd0 GPT (58G) 34 2014 - free - (1.0M) 2048 204800 mmcsd0p1 efi (100M) 206848 32768 mmcsd0p2 ms-reserved (16M) 239616 2097152 mmcsd0p3 ms-recovery (1.0G) 2336768 119805919 mmcsd0p4 ms-basic-data (57G) => 40 1953525088 nvd3 GPT (932G) 40 532480 nvd3p1 efi (260M) 532520 1024 nvd3p2 freebsd-boot (512K) 533544 984 - free - (492K) 534528 4194304 nvd3p3 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4728832 1948794880 nvd3p4 freebsd-zfs (929G) 1953523712 1416 - free - (708K) => 40 8001573472 nvd0 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 nvd0p1 freebsd-zfs (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd1 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 nvd1p1 freebsd-zfs (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd2 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 nvd2p1 freebsd-zfs (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd4 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 nvd4p1 freebsd-zfs (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd5 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 nvd5p1 freebsd-zfs (3.7T)
2025-11-01: zroot - create GPT on each ssd
root@kg-f7:~ # gpart create -s GPT nvd0 nvd0 created root@kg-f7:~ # gpart create -s GPT nvd1 nvd1 created root@kg-f7:~ # gpart create -s GPT nvd2 nvd2 created root@kg-f7:~ # gpart create -s GPT nvd4 nvd4 created root@kg-f7:~ # gpart create -s GPT nvd5 nvd5 created
now it looks like this
root@kg-f7:~ # gpart show -p => 34 122142653 mmcsd0 GPT (58G) 34 2014 - free - (1.0M) 2048 204800 mmcsd0p1 efi (100M) 206848 32768 mmcsd0p2 ms-reserved (16M) 239616 2097152 mmcsd0p3 ms-recovery (1.0G) 2336768 119805919 mmcsd0p4 ms-basic-data (57G) => 40 1953525088 nvd3 GPT (932G) 40 532480 nvd3p1 efi (260M) 532520 1024 nvd3p2 freebsd-boot (512K) 533544 984 - free - (492K) 534528 4194304 nvd3p3 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4728832 1948794880 nvd3p4 freebsd-zfs (929G) 1953523712 1416 - free - (708K) => 40 8001573472 nvd0 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 - free - (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd1 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 - free - (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd2 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 - free - (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd4 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 - free - (3.7T) => 40 8001573472 nvd5 GPT (3.7T) 40 8001573472 - free - (3.7T)
2025-11-01: zroot - on first powerup after installing the data SSDs, the machine stopped at the UEFI prompt. One reset and it boots. nvmecontrol reports
root@kg-f7:~ # nvmecontrol devlist nvme0: Lexar SSD NM790 4TB nvme0ns1 (3907018MB) nvme1: Lexar SSD NM790 4TB nvme1ns1 (3907018MB) nvme2: Lexar SSD NM790 4TB nvme2ns1 (3907018MB) nvme3: WD Blue SN570 1TB nvme3ns1 (953869MB) nvme4: Lexar SSD NM790 4TB nvme4ns1 (3907018MB) nvme5: Lexar SSD NM790 4TB nvme5ns1 (3907018MB)
2025-10-11: zroot - reboot, FreeBSD 13.5-release-p5 is in
root@kg-f7:~ # freebsd-version -ku 13.5-RELEASE 13.5-RELEASE-p5
kernel (unchanged)
root@kg-f7:~ # uname -a FreeBSD kg-f7.kg4.no 13.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE releng/13.5-n259162-882b9f3f2218 GENERIC amd64
2025-10-11: zroot - freebsd-update fetch
root@kg-f7:~ # freebsd-update fetch src component not installed, skipped [..] The following files will be removed as part of updating to 13.5-RELEASE-p5: /etc/ssl/blacklisted/03179a64.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/080911ac.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/157753a5.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/2c543cd1.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/2e5ac55d.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/3e45d192.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/4a6481c9.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/5273a94c.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/5c44d531.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/76cb8f92.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/861a399d.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/9c2e7d30.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/d853d49e.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/f3377b1b.0 /etc/ssl/certs/08063a00.0 /etc/ssl/certs/18856ac4.0 /etc/ssl/certs/57bcb2da.0 /etc/ssl/certs/5e98733a.0 /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/AddTrust_External_Root.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/AddTrust_Low-Value_Services_Root.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/Cybertrust_Global_Root.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/DST_Root_CA_X3.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/E-Tugra_Certification_Authority.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/GeoTrust_Global_CA.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/GlobalSign_Root_CA_-_R2.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/Hongkong_Post_Root_CA_1.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/QuoVadis_Root_CA.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/Security_Communication_Root_CA.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/Sonera_Class_2_Root_CA.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/Staat_der_Nederlanden_EV_Root_CA.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/Staat_der_Nederlanden_Root_CA_-_G2.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/Trustis_FPS_Root_CA.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/Entrust_Root_Certification_Authority_-_G4.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/SecureSign_RootCA11.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/Security_Communication_RootCA3.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/SwissSign_Silver_CA_-_G2.pem The following files will be added as part of updating to 13.5-RELEASE-p5: /etc/ssl/blacklisted/08063a00.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/18856ac4.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/57bcb2da.0 /etc/ssl/blacklisted/5e98733a.0 /etc/ssl/certs/616816f6.0 /etc/ssl/certs/6a9bdba3.0 /etc/ssl/certs/878d9bca.0 /etc/ssl/certs/a09a51ae.0 /etc/ssl/certs/b8d25de6.0 /etc/ssl/certs/ba8887ce.0 /etc/ssl/certs/ffdd40f9.0 /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/Entrust_Root_Certification_Authority_-_G4.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/SecureSign_RootCA11.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/Security_Communication_RootCA3.pem /usr/share/certs/blacklisted/SwissSign_Silver_CA_-_G2.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/D-TRUST_BR_Root_CA_2_2023.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/D-TRUST_EV_Root_CA_2_2023.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/FIRMAPROFESIONAL_CA_ROOT-A_WEB.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/SecureSign_Root_CA12.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/SecureSign_Root_CA14.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/SecureSign_Root_CA15.pem /usr/share/certs/trusted/TWCA_CYBER_Root_CA.pem /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Coyhaique The following files will be updated as part of updating to 13.5-RELEASE-p5: /bin/freebsd-version /boot/kernel/if_ena.ko /boot/kernel/zfs.ko /lib/libbsdxml.so.4 /lib/libc.so.7 /lib/libcrypto.so.111 /lib/libzpool.so.2 [..] /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone1970.tab
install
root@kg-f7:~ # freebsd-update install src component not installed, skipped Creating snapshot of existing boot environment... done. Installing updates... Restarting sshd after upgrade Performing sanity check on sshd configuration. Stopping sshd. Waiting for PIDS: 1642. Performing sanity check on sshd configuration. Starting sshd. Scanning //usr/share/certs/blacklisted for certificates... Scanning //usr/share/certs/trusted for certificates... done.
2025-09-30: zroot - BIOS info
root@kg-f7:~ # kenv smbios.bios.vendor; kenv smbios.bios.version; kenv smbios.bios.revision; kenv smbios.bios.reldate American Megatrends International, LLC. M1V305 5.27 06/25/2025
2025-09-29: zroot - pkg - install curl
Sep 29 21:54:11 kg-f7 pkg[1862]: brotli-1.1.0,1 installed Sep 29 21:54:11 kg-f7 pkg[1862]: indexinfo-0.3.1_1 installed Sep 29 21:54:11 kg-f7 pkg[1862]: liblz4-1.10.0,1 installed Sep 29 21:54:11 kg-f7 pkg[1862]: libnghttp2-1.66.0 installed Sep 29 21:54:11 kg-f7 pkg[1862]: libssh2-1.11.1,3 installed Sep 29 21:54:11 kg-f7 pkg[1862]: libunistring-1.3 installed Sep 29 21:54:11 kg-f7 pkg[1862]: libidn2-2.3.8 installed Sep 29 21:54:11 kg-f7 pkg[1862]: libpsl-0.21.5_2 installed Sep 29 21:54:11 kg-f7 pkg[1862]: zstd-1.5.7 installed Sep 29 21:54:11 kg-f7 pkg[1862]: curl-8.14.1 installed
2029-09-29: zroot - pkg - bootstrap pkg
root@kg-f7:~ # pkg bootstrap -f The package management tool is not yet installed on your system. Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/quarterly, please wait... Verifying signature with trusted certificate pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301... done Installing pkg-2.2.2... Extracting pkg-2.2.2: 100%
20259-09-29: zroot - pciconf output
root@kg-f7:~ # pciconf -lv hostb0@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x060000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x461c subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x030000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x46d4 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = display subclass = VGA none0@pci0:0:4:0: class=0x118000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x461d subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Alder Lake Innovation Platform Framework Processor Participant' class = dasp none1@pci0:0:8:0: class=0x088000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x467e subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = base peripheral xhci0@pci0:0:13:0: class=0x0c0330 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x464e subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus subclass = USB xhci1@pci0:0:20:0: class=0x0c0330 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54ed subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus subclass = USB none2@pci0:0:20:2: class=0x050000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54ef subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = memory subclass = RAM iwlwifi0@pci0:0:20:3: class=0x028000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54f0 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0244 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'CNVi: Wi-Fi' class = network ig4iic0@pci0:0:21:0: class=0x0c8000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54e8 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus ig4iic1@pci0:0:21:1: class=0x0c8000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54e9 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus none3@pci0:0:22:0: class=0x078000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54e0 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = simple comms sdhci_pci0@pci0:0:26:0: class=0x080501 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54c4 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = base peripheral subclass = SD host controller pcib1@pci0:0:28:0: class=0x060400 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54b8 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pcib2@pci0:0:28:1: class=0x060400 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54b9 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pcib3@pci0:0:29:0: class=0x060400 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54b0 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI none4@pci0:0:30:0: class=0x078000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54a8 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = simple comms none5@pci0:0:30:3: class=0x0c8000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54ab subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus isab0@pci0:0:31:0: class=0x060100 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x5481 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = PCI-ISA hdac0@pci0:0:31:3: class=0x040300 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54c8 subvendor=0x10ec subdevice=0x129e vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = multimedia subclass = HDA ichsmb0@pci0:0:31:4: class=0x0c0500 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54a3 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus subclass = SMBus none6@pci0:0:31:5: class=0x0c8000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x54a4 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus igc0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x125c subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Ethernet Controller I226-V' class = network subclass = ethernet igc1@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x125c subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0000 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Ethernet Controller I226-V' class = network subclass = ethernet nvme0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x010802 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x15b7 device=0x501a subvendor=0x15b7 subdevice=0x501a vendor = 'Sandisk Corp' device = 'SanDisk Ultra 3D / WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD (DRAM-less)' class = mass storage subclass = NVM
2025-09-29: zroot - network wired - the two wired network interfaces are igc(4)
root@kg-f7:~ # ifconfig igc0 igc0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=4e427bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,NOMAP> ether 78:55:36:02:08:99 inet 10.1.161.35 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.1.255.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) status: active nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> root@kg-f7:~ # ifconfig igc1 igc1: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=4e427bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,NOMAP> ether 78:55:36:02:08:98 media: Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
igc0 is on the left (closest to the usb port) when seen from the back. The wireless interface is iwlwifi(4), but I haven't tried it
root@kg-f7:~ # sysctl net.wlan.devices net.wlan.devices: iwlwifi0
from dmesg
root@kg-f7:~ # dmesg | grep iwl iwlwifi0: <iwlwifi> mem 0x6001144000-0x6001147fff irq 16 at device 20.3 on pci0 iwlwifi0: Detected crf-id 0x501, cnv-id 0x80400 wfpm id 0x80000030 iwlwifi0: PCI dev 54f0/0244, rev=0x370, rfid=0x10c000 iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-so-a0-hr-b0-83.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-so-a0-hr-b0-82.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-so-a0-hr-b0-81.ucode' iwlwifi0: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver iwlwifi0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.41 iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version 81.31fc9ae6.0 so-a0-hr-b0-81.ucode op_mode iwlmvm iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX101, REV=0x370 iwlwifi0: WRT: Invalid buffer destination: 0 iwlwifi0: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20 iwlwifi0: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f iwlwifi0: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90 iwlwifi0: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x10 iwlwifi0: Detected RF HR1 B3, rfid=0x10c000 iwlwifi0: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4 iwlwifi0: base HW address: b8:f7:75:60:d3:21
2025-09-29: zroot - I installed FreeBSD 13.5-release (from a usb stick plugged into the front USB 3.2 port) on the 1TB SN570 ssd:
root@kg-f7:~ # freebsd-version -ku 13.5-RELEASE 13.5-RELEASE
the system drive
root@kg-f7:~ # gpart show -p nvd0 => 40 1953525088 nvd0 GPT (932G) 40 532480 nvd0p1 efi (260M) 532520 1024 nvd0p2 freebsd-boot (512K) 533544 984 - free - (492K) 534528 4194304 nvd0p3 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4728832 1948794880 nvd0p4 freebsd-zfs (929G) 1953523712 1416 - free - (708K)
there is an EMMC in there, but I disabled it from the boot menu in the BIOS
root@kg-f7:~ # gpart show -p mmcsd0 => 34 122142653 mmcsd0 GPT (58G) 34 2014 - free - (1.0M) 2048 204800 mmcsd0p1 efi (100M) 206848 32768 mmcsd0p2 ms-reserved (16M) 239616 2097152 mmcsd0p3 ms-recovery (1.0G) 2336768 119805919 mmcsd0p4 ms-basic-data (57G)
zfs - root pool
root@kg-f7:~ # zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT zroot 928G 1.05G 927G - - 0% 0% 1.00x ONLINE -
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