🎉 New release available: Dasharo (coreboot+UEFI) for #PCEngines v0.9.1. This update brings improved stability, updated components, and multiple refinements across the platform.

🔗 Details and download:
https://docs.dasharo.com/variants/pc_engines/releases_uefi/#v091-2025-11-27

I have a #PCEngines APU4 machine with an external m.2 in a USB encase. It used to boot from it, but not anymore. I used to use a USB stick to boot with some #GRUB + #Linux + initrd ISO image, but can't remember which.

Tried several ISOs (gparted, grml, debian installer, others). Many are not even detected by the (#UEFI less) SeaBIOS 1.12.0.1 (see pic), and the few that do can't be told to boot from another disk.

Need to find or create a BIOS bootable disk, docs and help appreciated.

#SysAdmin

Been trying to keep my #PCEngines #ALIX boards alive, but it looks like #NanoBSD in #FreeBSD doesn't work (compile error in tz!) ...

Nobody seems to still product bootable system images for i386 anymore - not even #NetBSD or #DietPi :(

... which is a real shame; I want to use these extremely reliable, low-power SBCs as #Zabbix Proxies (using memory-backed #SQLite for the DB), but this seems to be a realllllllly big lift :(

@dexter is this something #OccamBSD can help me with? No chance of a 14.3 serial-console image out there?

Geschter mini alti #PCEngines APU2 usem Regal gholt und druus e WiFi Access Point Marke Eigenbau gmacht 😄

So langsam hanis scho im Griff 💪
#OpenSource #Debian #Upcycling

Today's real champion is this one. One of my PC Engines APU devices - I don’t remember the exact year I bought it, probably 2017.

It worked at my home as a router/firewall with OPNsense for several months, then in 2018 I installed it at a client’s site, "as a temporary emergency solution". Still running OPNsense, always kept updated, and it hasn’t missed a bit since then.

During a severe thunderstorm, the access point and switch connected to it were fried, but it kept going - silently and reliably. Zerotier, Wireguard, port forwarding, bandwidth graphs - all handled in a hot office, often with the air conditioning turned off during holidays.

It did everything, and it still works.

The client moved to a new location this morning, and the APU was replaced with a more powerful device (in anticipation of a future Internet upgrade). I decided to take it back with me (technically, it’s still mine) - they couldn’t find the power adapter, probably still packed in boxes, but up until 07:30 this morning (the last time I connected to the server behind it via VPN), it was perfectly reliable.

I’ll probably keep using it - I have others - maybe in the office as a file server with two attached drives.

Honor to the device, honor to OPNsense, honor to FreeBSD.

#OPNSense #FreeBSD #RunBSD #APU #APU2 #PCEngines