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Date:      Tue, 11 Oct 2022 08:54:54 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FYI: FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-GENERICSD-20220930-42dc8696df5-258315.img is broken for RPi2 v1.1 (so: armv7)g
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[I'd keep Warner out of our exchanges: too higih of a
volume. So I've dropped Warner from the reply.]

On 2022-Oct-11, at 08:39, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 08:26:48AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
>> On 2022-Oct-11, at 06:17, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 11:50 PM Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> =
wrote:
>>> On 2022-Oct-10, at 21:08, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> . . .
>>>> And are you sure it's a booting issue and not a console issue?
>>>=20
>>> No clue for your distinction. But, being serial console
>>> based until ssh is possible for my context, I classify
>>> serial-console-broken as a booting issue. (For example,
>>> not being able to identify the DHCP address assigned
>>> if it did make it that far.)
>>>=20
>>> So it's not a booting issue (where the loader can't find the disk,
>>> can't load the kernel or loads it such that it hangs), but a default
>>> console issue. That's a lot easier for me to help solve.
>>=20
>> I wrote separately later that I got a HDMI context set up and
>> both the serial and HDMI consoles stopped, showing the same
>> final text.
>>=20
>> (I'm  not sure  that the final "-" lways shows up. But the HDMI
>> and serial displays do seem to always agree about it.)
>>=20
>>> . . .
>>>=20
>>> The change was made in late August that I'm thinking of, so if you =
could find a
>>> snapshot from early August July that would be a useful data point:
>=20
> My Pi2B reporting=20
>=20
> FreeBSD www.zefox.com 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #12 =
main-2b766d5e5a: Mon Jul 11 01:38:59 PDT 2022     =
bob@www.zefox.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm.armv7/sys/GENERIC arm
>=20
> is presently running buildworld on -current dated October 9th. If I'm=20=

> understanding this thread correctly, running installworld will result
> in an ubootable system.=20
>=20
> Should I refrain from running installworld for the time being?
>=20

If you have a working EFI loader in the msdosfs, just do not
update it. installworld does not update the msdosfs.

=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com




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