Re: Unable to boot Pi 3b+
Mark Millard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm |
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On Aug 15, 2023, at 19:17, Peter G <[email protected]> wrote: > I am unable to get FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64 to boot on either of two brand new Raspberry Pi 3B+ boards. (Just as a diagnostic, I checked that both work perfectly well with Raspberry Pi OS.) I have tried several different brands and sizes of SD card (which all boot fine with Raspberry Pi OS). I have redone the image downloads multiple times and verified the checksums. I burn images to the SD card on another machine using dd with bs=1M. If I mount the prepared SD cards on that other machine, I can confirm the files are readable. > > I have tried both > /ftp/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/13.2/FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img It may not be likely to be the issue, but you did not mention it explicitly, so . . . I instead see: http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.2/FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz Note the *.xz naming. I do not see a: FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img to download After downloading FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz , using: # unxz FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz would produce a: FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img That, in turn, would be dd'd to the microsd card. > and > /ftp/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/13.2/FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso. Definitely the wrong media: no RPi* firmware, no U-Boot for the aarch64 RPi* , and so on. > Neither boots. > The first image gives green LED blinks: slow four and then fast seven. The second never blinks. > > Any advice on what I'm missing would be appreciated. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com