Re: Raspberry Pi 4 and M.2 SATA SSD recognized but not booting or available for install - unsupported interface

Thanks, this is great info! I do now have my RPi 4 successfully
running 14.0-RELEASE-p6, but happy to try your image if you want
me to help with testing.

	Julf


On 15/04/2024 15:58, Fred Finster wrote:
> ZFS  ,  UFS  here are some webpages for Raspberry Pi 4B running FreeBSD 
> 14.0-RELEASE
> 
> 
> I can show you how to transfer files from a booted USB Flash Disk drive 
> Stick to make your own USB SSD with a bootable ZFS file system using 
> about 4 or 5 shell script files to make the move of copying files from a 
> USB flash drive to a ZFS USB SSD.
> 
> If you help me test, find errors, make corrections.  I will gladly help 
> you Julf and others who are interested in running FreeBSD on a USB SSD 
> with an installed ZFS file system.
> 
> This is the bootable GhostBSD image I created.  You can use the FreeBSD 
> 14.0-RELEASE RPI image.
> 
> I have setup a shell script to download  the FreeBSD image for your and 
> to uncompress this compressed XZ image.
> 
> Select '0' to download the checksum value
> Select '1' to download the FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE image
> Select '2' to download the GhostBSD-Arm64 image file from my package 
> NGINX web server http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/
> Select '3' to download from any URL you select
> 
> 
> This is a 6k shell script file to download and perform the tasks for you.
> http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/write_freebsd_img_dd_to_da1.sh
> 
> http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/Ghost14_5G_selfbuilt_raspi4b_Feb27_2.img.xz This is a 728Megabyte file to downloaded by the previous 6k shell script file when selecting option '2' .
> 
> 
> 500 GB setup for UFS ?
> https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2022/02/booting-500-gb-ssd-on-freebsd-arm64-140.html
> 
> 500 GB setup for Raspberry Pi 4B with FreeBSD O/S
> https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2023/07/learning-zfs-on-root-setup-for.html
> 
> https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2024/04/create-ghostbsd-usb-ssd-500gb-or-larger.html This is most for x86_64 but the commands are the same.
> 
> https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2023/10/honey-i-broke-my-zfs-usb-sata-ssd-1-tb.html Here are short details, about how I fixed a boot problem with my ZFS disk for Raspberry Pi 4B.
> 
> https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2024/01/hdmi-audio-sound-patches-into-ghostbsd.html Here are details for setting up the audio patch files to compile for FreeBSD and GhostBSD
> 
> Here are details for setting up the 4 shell script files to create a ZFS 
> USB SSD.
> 
> https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2023/12/zfs-boot-on-root-setup-for-usb-ssd.html
> 
> I am sending now, Julf.  Reach out to me.  I can help you achieve a 
> working Desktop on Arm64 booting from a USB SSD.
> 
> Fred Finster
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> 
> 
>> */From:/* Johan Helsingius <julf_at_Julf.com>
>> */Date:/* Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:47:52 UTC
>> On 11/04/2024 19:38, Mark Millard wrote:
>> > Which image(s)?
>>
>> I think it was the memstick one.
>>
>> > Only the likes of, say,
>> > 
>> > FreeBSD-14.0-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20240404-72c3d91294c4-267114.img.xz
>> > and:
>> > FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20240404-112783ebbc31-269103.img.xz
>> > and:
>> > FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz
>> > 
>> > are set up with the extra materials that I referenced for the RPi*'s. Note:
>> > Those are UFS based, not ZFS based.
>>
>> Ah! I see! Bummer that none of them are ZFS based, but I guess I can
>> live with UFS on a RPi - it just means I have to have yet another
>> backup procedure.
>>
>> > What did you put in da1p1 (efiboot0) ? That area you have
>> > to deal with for bsdinstall usage. Some folks extract and
>> > copy over what is in the msdosfs in a:
>> > 
>> > *-arm64-aarch64-RPI-*.img.xz
>> > 
>> > as a means of getting an officially-built set of such
>> > materials when they want to customize other aspects.
>>
>> Would that make it possible to do a ZFS-based environment?
>>
>> 	Julf
>>
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