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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by sneak on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:18PM (#32338984)
Funnily enough, this tutorial uses the linux-style dd numeric syntax (lowercase M) which fails on macOS (I think it inherited dd from freebsd a looong time ago) and needs bs=1M (not bs=1m).
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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by codetrotter on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:45AM (#32339929)
All of the commands given in the guide are provided exactly as they should be run, and you can copy paste all of them directly into your terminal on macOS without any changes.

That includes all of the dd commands. These run as they should on macOS with the syntax given in the guide.

Assuming you are using the same version of macOS as me; macOS Monterey Version 12.5

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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by irusensei on Thursday August 04, 2022 @07:20AM (#32341510)
That's true for most versions but I just tested on Monterey and bs=nM now works. Since this is a M1 specific we just need to check if Big Sur behaves the same.
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