I’ve recently become interested in how the i386 boot loader works. There is an excellent example of a boot loader here, and another here. Some simple protected-mode code which implements a kernel capable of writing a line of text, is here. FemtoOS, is the culmination of combining code from all those, and building a simple…
Image file here.
Image file here, boot log here.
A new FreeBSD Wandboard build is available here and the boot log is here. This build uses U-Boot 2014.07.
In this blog article, I described a way to use Netatalk3 to do Time Machine backups on FreeBSD. This approach worked well, but it had some problems: The Time Machine backups are in every user’s home dir. That’s messy and there is the potential that they’ll accidentally delete the backup. If I put the backups…
I usually work on a Macbook, and I use keyless ssh with a cron job to do nightly backups. It works very well. However, I decided to try backups with Time Machine, using my FreeBSD-10 server as the host. The first step is to install netatalk3, and nss_mdns pkg install netatalk3 pkg install nss_mdns avahi…
I’m upgrading the U-boot version used for Wandboard by Crochet-BSD. The first step is to upgrade the Device Tree Compiler (DTC); there are instructions here. Once you have the U-boot 2014 source, the build is trivial: gmake SED=gsed HOSTCC=cc CROSS_COMPILE=armv6-freebsd- wandboard_quad_config gmake SED=gsed HOSTCC=cc CROSS_COMPILE=armv6-freebsd-
I got interested in building Crochet images for Chromebook. The first step, naturally is to build U-boot for Chromebook. In order to build U-boot, you’ll need to have already installed gmake gcc You can get these from the ports tree. You’ll also need xdev, the FreeBSD cross-compiler toolkit. I started with the latest U-boot 2014…
The updated main page is here. This release include a number of bug fixes for issues discovered by Coverity.
Available here.