well it’s been a very long time since i’ve even blogged, in fact the last time it was with regards to FreeBSD breaking and swapping to arch linux. The raspberry Pi 4 continued to perform really well however i decided to treat myself for Christmas and purchased a lenovo thinkcentre m72e tiny from ebay for £35. It come with 320GB hdd and 4GB of ram and an i3 processor
Upon arrival, i was faced with an issue straight away and it required a male to male VGA cable to use for a monitor (HDMI don’t exist) so jumped on ebuyer paid £12 for one which arrived and was male to female. I didn’t have the time to send back, so i lost £12 and decided to look local to me. Screwfix to the rescue and was £8 however due to Christmas it was delayed and was ready on the 29th December i was very excited.
Plugged it all in, installed Debian (Network Install) and after reboot i was greeted with Error 1962: No Operating System Found and after sometime or more like 6 hours trying i gave up and accepted defeat. I continued to read up on the error more and people mentioned about turning secure boot off in bios (wasn’t an option) and others mentioned the UEFI boot manager missing ” Windows Boot Manager ” after more in depth investigation and a 12 hour night shift the following day i downloaded and installed windows 7. Surprise Surprise it booted to desktop and work as it should, so thought lets try Debian again knowing if it fails we can revert to windows 7 again and do more investigation.
It worked, Debian installed and now running KVM which is running 2 x vps for now. This website is on one vps running Debian 10.x and my local network DNS server is running on a very small (128Mb ram) netbsd vps
Next reboot is planned when i order more ram and potentially power UPS, anyways 2:17am and i’m off to work 🙁