Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:49:18 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Getting started with FreeBSD on CUBOX i2 Message-ID: <201512242349.QAA23506@mail.lariat.net>
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All: I'm interested in experimenting with FreeBSD on various small and embedded ARM boards during the coming year, and just acquired a CuBox-i2 to work with. I downloaded the file FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD-20151217-r292413.img.xz from the FreeBSD FTP server, decompressed it, and wrote the image to an 8 GB micro SD card from a Windows machine. I then placed the card into the CuBox and tried to boot it. I was hopeful when the display showed a message from the U-Boot boot loader. But then a bunch of random pixels appeared and the screen went blank. Where am I going wrong? I'll probably dig into the technical details of development for this system shortly, but right now I'd just like to boot a prebuilt image and explore... and I'm not succeeding at doing this. Note that the CuBox *will* boot the manufacturer's "ignition" downloader, which in turn will download and flash quite a few versions of Linux. So, I know that the hardware is functional. However, their downloader doesn't offer a working image of FreeBSD as an option. --Brett Glass
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