From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Mon Jan 4 19:18:09 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31312A61154 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2016 19:18:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from misc.lists@fsck.ch) Received: from secure.socket.ch (secure.socket.ch [91.199.228.84]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6A981F52 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2016 19:18:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from misc.lists@fsck.ch) Received: from 46-253-187-21.dynamic.monzoon.net ([46.253.187.21] helo=fluff-wlan.fsck.ch) by secure.socket.ch with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.83 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1aGANB-0003zE-T2 for freebsd-arm@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:00:56 +0100 Message-ID: <568AC167.7030006@fsck.ch> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:00:55 +0100 From: Toby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting a RPI 1 B+ References: <56840940.20709@aon.at> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "secure.socket.ch", has NOT identified this incoming email as spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see The administrator of that system for details. Content preview: On 31/12/15 00:36, Tim Kientzle wrote: > You should consider getting a USB serial adapter cable such as: > > http://adafru.it/954 > > This will let you see the earliest boot messages and any errors that may be appearing. > > As others have mentioned, it's worth trying different SDHC cards, since the SD drivers do not seem to be compatible with all cards. [...] Content analysis details: (-2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP 0.0 TVD_RCVD_IP Message was received from an IP address -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 URIBL_BLOCKED ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was blocked. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block for more information. [URIs: adafru.it] X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 46.253.187.21 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: misc.lists@fsck.ch X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on secure.socket.ch); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 19:18:09 -0000 On 31/12/15 00:36, Tim Kientzle wrote: > You should consider getting a USB serial adapter cable such as: > > http://adafru.it/954 > > This will let you see the earliest boot messages and any errors that may be appearing. > > As others have mentioned, it's worth trying different SDHC cards, since the SD drivers do not seem to be compatible with all cards. I can only second the former. I managed to fill my disk with a typo in a dd command on a running pi, after which I never got it to boot again with just a blank screen on hdmi. With a USB serial adapter, I could have fixed the problem right away. Instead, I needed to write the sd card content to a file, copy the file to a freebsd vm (my primary machine is a mac and can't mount UFS rw), fsck it there, mount it, fix the damage, unmount and write the file back to the sd card. As for the latter, Transcend cards have worked fine for me. Toby