Re: Installing 13.1 ARM on SSD

On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 11:00:27AM -0700, John Kennedy wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 05:40:23PM +0000, Wall, Stephen wrote:
> > I am attempting to install FreeBSD/ARM 13.1 on a RPi4 with a USB3 SSD attached.
> > Steps I’ve taken:
> > - Used Raspberry Pi Imager to set the board to boot from USB first, SD card second
> > - downloaded and burned  FreeBSD 13.1 arm65-aarch64-RPI image
> > - booted and run bsdinstall
> > - selected ZFS
> > - selected the USB SSD
> > 
> > Installation ran to completion, but when I reboot without the SD card, I get a “Firmware not found” error message.
> > Searching the web gives lots of results for linux, but I can’t find anything for FreeBSD.
> > Has anyone successfully done an install like this, and can point me toward some resources that will get me straightened out?

  ... I should also point out that there may be some issues with
multiple USB disks attached, or if your disk is slow to discover, so way
more context around the "firmware not found" would probably be key.  My
approach worked for me.