Booting HoneyComb dual Sled from 15.0-CURRENT FreeBSD. Looking for method for ASRock Rack AltraB8UD-1L2T

Fred Finster <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
*/From:/* Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
*/Date:/* Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:00:38 UTC

On Jun 30, 2025, at 04:14, Fred Finster<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.  . . .
> 
> . . .
My previous post, searching for boot method. use memstick image file <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm/2025-June/004955.html>

https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.3/ has:

FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-dvd1.iso.xz
FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-dvd1.iso

and also (also with a "1.iso"):

FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso.xz
FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso

https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/14.3/ has just (with a "1.iso"):

FreeBSD-14.3-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-20250626-fad4064226b2-271785-disc1.iso.xz
FreeBSD-14.3-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-20250626-fad4064226b2-271785-disc1.iso

FreeBSD-14.3-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-20250619-ca5be69fb96d-271724-disc1.iso.xz
FreeBSD-14.3-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-20250619-ca5be69fb96d-271724-disc1.iso

So I do not see an arm64/aarch64 14.3-STABLE *-dvd1.iso* at all.

Did you mean 14.3-RELEASE ? Vs.: Did you mean *-disk1.iso* ?
Or, better: What was the specific file name involved?

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com


I did use 15.0-CURRENT  memstick.img file and was able to boot that version for my needs for the Honeycomb machines..

I know am looking for method or procedure to boot a 15.0 memstick image file on the  Ampere Altra B8UD-1L2T machines.

I did try the 15.0 memstick file, and that did not work to boot 
FreeBSD.  So how do you do this task of test booting small servers.?  
  Glad to hear your chat in the evening.  Do you have a written method 
or procedure to install FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT to an ASROCK Ampere Altra  
D8UD-1L2T mini ITX server board?  Maybe FreeBSD foundation has some PDF 
files or procedures for install FreeBSD 15.0 into this Ampere Altra 
board.  Your suggestions.   I did try to pull myself up by my boot 
straps, using Google and X.com/i/grok AI.

Grok-3 answer 
<https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2025/07/learning-to-boot-asrock-ampere-altra.html>

Fred L. Finster

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