Raspberry Pi 500 Keyboard with 8 GB dram, trying to boot FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT BETA1 Image

Fred Finster <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Just trying to get some part of FreeBSD booting on the Raspberry Pi 500 
keyboard model.   Can someone share their working Rpi500 or their Rpi5  
setup, configuration files with me and others lurking here, please?  
Your competition RaspberryPi debian Linux Operating System,  is so 
simple to insert a blank microSD card  or a blank USB flash disk drive 
stick, and then download a full operating system and write it either to 
the microSD or the USB flash disk drive stick.   After writing,  reboot 
and now you can access the internet via wifi and play audio through the 
televison monitor speakers.   Watch your youtube videos to learn more 
about FreeBSD and Arm64 via the Robonuggie  Youtube channel, 
www.youtube.com/c/robonuggie

Share what you can to help me and others use FreeBSD Arm64 on a 
Raspberry Pi 500  keyboard model.


I have followed the wiki entry, but not quite there to boot up FreeBSD. 
  https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205 Raspberry Pi 5 Boot 
stuff    I have the FreeBSD Arm64 image written into  the microSD card.  
I have the config.txt file and three other files written to the USB 
flash drive stick.  I have the master firmware files installed.  I have 
the 3 UEFI files uncompressed from that zip file , and written to the 
root directory of a USB flash drive stick.

Use the Tree command to show what files you have setup in which directory.

Use the md5deep command to create an audit trail for all the files used 
in your RPI5 setup.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/config_txt.html 
Config.txt file command explanations

My recent blogposts

https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2025/09/setting-up-freebsd-on-raspberry-pi-5.html 
My blog post with details

https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2025/10/testing-freebsd-150-beta1-october-11.html 
Todays blog capture

https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2025/10/raspberry-pi-master-firmware-zip-file.html 
Master Firmware zip file


https://magexmonitor.com/raspberry-pi-5-monitor/  display monitor 
commands to  set in the config.txt file

https://t.me/+ST6N61pnu3Di8zgk  Telegram Arm Open Source group, where we 
can interact and share working files.

I am tired, now.  I have tried this booting several times.  I do not 
have the Jeff Probe setup or a 3.3v serial port to USB device setup for 
capturing serial port printk statements coming from the boot process.  
Just frustrated to not have a clear working, tested, and audited to 
confirm the exact file contents for the usb flash drive and the microSD 
card with FreeBSD Arm64 files.

Your thoughts, setup of the files,  setup of Jeff Probe JTAG and 3.3V 
serial port, setup of the 3.3V serial port to capture the print kernel 
messages.     Share what useful knowledge you have to answer these 
questions.

Respectfully,    Fred L. Finster

PS.  Have made this email a plain text email with no hyper links 
involved to allow pass through the email servers.  Previous emails with 
attachments or a photo have gone into FreeBSD.org bit bucket.   From 
this activity, I intend to share files and configuration files on the 
Telegram Arm Open Source group.   here

https://t.me/+ST6N61pnu3Di8zgk  Telegram Arm Open Source group, where we 
can interact and share working files.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205     FreeBSD Raspberry Pi 
5  wiki entry
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