Raspberry Pi 500 Keyboard with 8 GB dram, trying to boot FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT BETA1 Image
Fred Finster <[email protected]>
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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