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FreeBSD, Raspberry PI - problems booting with USB powered hub connected

a month ago 1 min read freebsd hardware server alpine backup data

Raspberry PI i4 s a great platform for FreeBSD but if u-boot detects there's a powered hub, the boot seems to go crazy. It isn’t even able to recognize the SD partitions. The result is that the Rpi4 won’t boot and start loop.

FreeBSD on Raspberry PI - enable and use Watchdog

2 months ago 1 min read freebsd server ha hardware

Watchdog devices are important to be sure our servers are working. Unfortunately, watchdog daemon seem to crash if enabled on Rasbperry PI. The problem is that our Pis have a strange watchdog hardware

Proxmox - Enable and use Watchdog to reboot stuck servers

3 years ago 1 min read proxmox hardware ha

Sometimes servers can become unresponsive. Both physical and virtual, you may be unable to connect to them, especially when overloaded. So a watchdog can be a solution.