Crazy Macer Life

so i’m having issues installing freebsd on the 1u supermicro. i’m using two 128GB usb drives to use for booting / os stuff and trid installing onto them mirrored and it panics on first boot. i need to probably pull it out of the rack but it’s a mess right now so it will have to wait until after business hours. if i can’t sort out why freebsd isn’t working on it then i’ll probably have to go with option b which is to install proxmox on it, migrate, then install freebsd on the old (but newer than the 1u) proxmox server.

update: so after tinkering with it forever to sort out what was wrong i learned that it has two internal usb ports. so i put the usb drives in there and made a third one with the installer. the reason i was having issues is because the first shutdown took forever. i’m really not sure what the problem was there. maybe it was the usb drives having the cache flush before it shut down?

either way. i now have freebsd on the 1u supermicro from the days of yesteryear. it’s old hardware but it is still pretty beefy for what i am going to do.

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz (2793.16-MHz K8-class CPU)
real memory = 137443147776 (131076 MB)

with hyperthreading it has 24 cores. more than enough for what i need.

i have a 10gbit and two 1gbit nics in it. the first thing i did was set up lagg failover with all three because i had a 10gbit card overheat on me and just turn off one day.

next up is to install ssds in it but that may take a while. i want to get the largest ones i can so the next post may be a while. i think to move things along i may just set up iscsi and i can just migrate the stuff over using zfs send once i get ssds.