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Using a custom boot logo on Lenovo ThinkPad T460s

2021-02-09 304 words, 2 minutes
boot
lenovo
logo
openbsd
thinkpad

Lenovo makes it possible to change the boot logo of my refurbished ThinkPad T460s. So let’s turn the big red rectangle into something BSD.

FreeBSD 9 booting from a 3 disks ZFS

2012-06-01 857 words, 5 minutes
boot
freebsd
raid
raidz
zfs

I already managed to boot FreeBSD from ZFS ; a single disk ZFS pool. Now, let’s see how to boot FreeBSD-9-RELEASE from a ZFS pool made of 3 disks using RAIDZ configuration. I used the FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso CD-ROM image.