Solid-Run Honeycomb LX2K FreeBSD Install 14.3-STABLE or 15.0-CURRENT, What is your written documented method for installation?

Hello,  I have the dual sled HoneyComb LX2K server hardware with 64GB 
dram and a FAST600 NVME.


I am trying to boot up from a 14.3-STABLE Arm64 FreeBSD DVD1 image.  
Think I need to add a EFI partition with a file to that 14.3-STABLE 
FreeBSD Arm64 image written to a USB flash disk drive stick.   I am 
trying to do most of this work myself for my own training and learning.  
But maybe you have better notes to share than what I can find from 
X.com/i/grok  or chatgpt AI sources. or by google searches.  Share what 
you can,  I included important links that I find in my private 
searches.  I show that I am willing to dig for knowledge.  Yet ,  a 
couple hints can get me moved down the path to success for getting the 
HoneyComb to run FreeBSD Arm64 and use that resource to compile FreeBSD 
Arm64 images for testing.   I am having problems with the  boot from 
file selection not performing to boot from the USB flash disk image that 
WotyB's  material suggested to download and use either a DVD1  or disk1 
image.   Other says to use the memdisk image for booting up the 
HoneyComb LX2K machine.  So I worked to add these extra URL links for 
sharing purposes,  yet also show that I put in effort to solve my own 
problem here before asking for help.


bootaa64.efi  in /EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi  for the UEFI to find and 
boot.   The directions from WOOTYB are helpful, but when the machine 
does not respond to the "add boot option"  one gets kinda of stuck of 
what is NOT working and what operation to choose next.   Below is the 
uname -a  output from 14.0-RELEASE .


uname -a
FreeBSDfred65_ 14.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE #0 
releng/14.0-n265380-f9716eee8ab4: Fri Nov 10 05:54:07 UTC 2023 
[email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/ar
m64.aarch64/sys/GENERIC arm64
root@fred654_:~ #

WootyB nice how to install FreeBSD on to the HoneyComb.   I am looking 
for present directions to install FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT and 14.3-STABLE 
images into a USB flash drive and boot from that USB flash drive stick,  
then from that image install to the NVME memory modules.  Here are 
Wooty-B written instructions.   What do you suggest?  How did you do 
this?  Borjn Z has this helpful tid bit:

https://github.com/Wooty-B/LX2K_Guide/blob/main/HoneyComb-Issues.md

https://github.com/Wooty-B/LX2K_Guide/blob/main/Install-FreeBSD.md

https://github.com/Wooty-B/LX2K_Guide/blob/main/HoneyComb-Issues.md

So what documents do you read and use to install FreeBSD into a 
HoneyComb LX2K dual sled  1U rack mount server?

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/honeycomb-lx2.83553/


  SolidRun HoneyComb/Clearfog ARM Workstation Up-and-running

https://carlosedp.medium.com/solidrun-honeycomb-arm-up-and-running-56b3de896143 



https://people.freebsd.org/~cognet/freebsd_arm.txt Cognet setting up 
Arm64 compile for Intel Xscale

https://wiki.freebsd.org/BjoernZeeb/HoneyComb Bjoern HoneyComb notes to 
make a microSD card image for booting HoneyComb


Do you still have to use a USB 3.0 to Ethernet device or  RTL8188EU WLAN 
device to have internet connection, or will the main RJ45 Ethernet front 
panel connection next to the microUSB console USB connection.

I would like to join your elite club of Arm64 developers supporting the 
Raspberry Pi 4B, 400 keyboard, and other Arm64 boards like the Orange Pi 
5 plus SBC.   I can make buildworld  and make buildkernel to create 
FreeBSD images.  I am sorry that Mike Karels has passed on, who 
supported Arm64.   I wish to help make the Raspberryu Pi 4B, and the 400 
Keyboard and entry SBC for testing and useing Arm64 embedded hardware.  
I tested HDMI Audio for the Raspberry Pi4B, and have a review up a 
D43399, if you interested in patching the FreeBSD kernel source, to have 
HDMI audio for playing youtube videos  with audio sound output to the 
HDMI TV speakers.  Or VLC player playing video files.   Sure you can 
always plug in USB headphones and get your audio with that method.  I 
just wanted to use the existing nice speakers on the HDMI TV the 
raspberry pi was already connected to.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43399

more specific detailed directions at the image reply 
https://reviews.freebsd.org/F75131370


Fred Finster

[email protected]

ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com my blog notes on how I learned to do things 
with making a FreeBSD workstation from a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8GB dram, 
and 1 TB USB SSD.