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EFI
Efibootmgr
List UEFI entries:
efibootmgr
Delete entry 0013:
efibootmgr -B -b 0013
Create new entry:
efibootmgr --create --label "HD001" --loader "\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI"
Disk check
Bad blocks
badblocks is used to search for bad blocks on a device. It can be installed on NetBSD with:
pkgin install e2fsprogs
or on macOS with:
brew install e2fsprogs
A test can be launched by executing the following command:
# Device must first be unmounted on macOS
sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/<device>
badblocks -n -s -v /dev/<device>
where <device> can be identified by executing:
dmesg | tail
right after plugging in the USB flash storage on GNU/Linux or NetBSD and
Arch Linux Installation
Boot image
curl --output archlinux-x86_64.iso https://mirror.srv.fail/archlinux/iso/2026.03.01/archlinux-x86_64.iso
# on macOS
sudo dd if=archlinux-x86_64.iso of=/dev/disk4 bs=1m status=progress
# on NetBSD
dd if=/home/triaxx/archlinux-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sd2d bs=1m progress=100
System configuration
After booting from USB disk:
localectl list-keymaps | grep fi
loadkeys fi
timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Helsinki
Partitionning
List available types for GPT:
sfdisk --label gpt --list-types
Create partitions:
echo "size=1GiB, name=boot, type=efi-system" | sfdisk /dev/sda
echo "size=40GiB, name=linux-swap, type=linux-swap" | sfdisk /dev/sda --append
echo "size=256GiB, name=linux-root, type=linux-root-x86-64" | sfdisk /dev/sda --append
echo "size=40GiB, name=freebsd-swap, type=freebsd-swap" | sfdisk /dev/sda --append
echo "size=256GiB, name=freebsd-root, type=freebsd-ufs" | sfdisk /dev/sda --append
echo "size=+, name=data, type=freebsd-zfs" | sfdisk /dev/sda --append
Make filesystems:
Figlet
File header
figlet Makefile | sed -e "s|^|# |" > Makefile
Hugo
Abstract
Hugo is an open-source static website generator. It is written in Go and uses Markdown file format as input to produce static HTML website.
Initialization
Site
hugo new project <path>
cd <path>
cat > hugo.toml << EOF
baseURL = 'https://triaxx.io/'
languageCode = 'fr-FR'
title = 'Triaxx Web Log'
EOF
Theme
A theme is mandatory to build sites.
hugo new theme <name>
echo "theme = '<name>' >> hugo.toml
A example menu can be copied from themes/<name>/hugo.toml: