Rebase on FreeBSD 13.1

[andreas-jonsson]

Hi!

I have several laptops, most notably a StarLab coreboot laptop that won't boot with the default 13.0 image supplied on the website but when I rebuilt Nomad based on 13.1 they all run just fine. (Issues not specific to Nomad but FreeBSD as well.)

Updating Nomad on the USB stick directly can be tricky and it seems people have varying success.

Perhaps providing an official 13.1 image on the website would be a good idea? (At least for people to test.)

Thanks

[grahamperrin]

… won't boot with the default 13.0 image supplied on the website but when I rebuilt Nomad based on 13.1 they all run just fine. (Issues not specific to Nomad but FreeBSD as well.) …

https://forum.nomadbsd.org/t/nomadbsd-1-4-not-booting-on-some-hardware/689/13?u=grahamperrin includes a link to a relevant release note.

[grahamperrin]

Additional reasons to rebase on 13.1:

• UFS: soft update journaling, fsck_ffs (8) - NomadBSD Development - NomadBSD Forum, in particular FreeBSD bug 256746 – fsck_ffs completely broken for background fsck
• 259090 – UFS: bad file descriptor: soft update journaling can not be enabled on some FreeBSD-provided disk images – failed to write updated cg

Context, my NomadBSD drive temporarily connected to a computer running FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT:

root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # lsblk da3
DEVICE         MAJ:MIN SIZE TYPE                                          LABEL MOUNT
da3              2:58   29G MBR                                               - -
  <FREE>         -:-   993K -                                                 - -
  da3s1          2:59   40M efi                                               - -
  da3s2          2:60  3.5G BSD                                               - -
    <FREE>       -:-   1.0M -                                                 - -
    da3s2a       2:62  3.5G freebsd-ufs                         label/nomadroot -
  da3s3          2:61   25G BSD                                               - -
    <FREE>       -:-   1.0M -                                                 - -
    da3s3a       2:63   25G freebsd-ufs                         label/nomaddata /tmp/nomaddata
  <FREE>         -:-   506K -                                                 - -
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # fstyp /dev/da3s2a
ufs
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # tunefs -j enable /dev/da3s2a
Using inode 14 in cg 0 for 29032448 byte journal
tunefs: Failed to write updated cg: Bad file descriptor
tunefs: soft updates journaling cannot be enabled
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # 

[grahamperrin]

https://forum.nomadbsd.org/t/new-nomadbsd-release/1104/2?u=grahamperrin

Joy.

[andreas-jonsson]

Is there a need for help testing a new 13.1 image?
If so is there a specific area or feature to focus on?

[bsdlme]

We're almost ready for a RC1. Please be patient for another few days.

[mrclksr]

@andreas-jonsson, please see #128