Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 03:33:50 -0800 From: Fred Finster <wb7odyfred@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Cc: fbsd@www.zefox.net, Fred.Suyimazu@theGalacticZoo.com Subject: SSD 500GB, has several slices, FreeBSD-ARM64 Snapshot 14, installed to a slice. Message-ID: <17693697-ba5d-7b09-4bcb-c7e5e43a6f01@yahoo.com> References: <17693697-ba5d-7b09-4bcb-c7e5e43a6f01.ref@yahoo.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------8CJO0Pe5ymtCU0v0PyR8HtR5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I will post details and pictures to https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogpost.com to better explain my confusion I want to thank Bob Prohaska for his little notes on setting up Raspberry Pi 4B at http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/u-boot_cheatsheet for booting from a USB SSD disk. http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/ Check his other notes on booting Raspberry Pi 3+ and 4B SBCs. I am searching and looking for using EFIBOOTMGR to setup the SSD to boot from a slice. There is an error about NO BootOrder setup and missing ubootefi.var value. So I can boot from a USB 2.0 Flash drive with the FreeBSD 14.0 RPI3 snapshot installed. I did install same image to a slice on the 500GB SATA SSD , but did not make any other changes or settings. Still looking for the Instructions, Dance Steps, what ever it takes to make the SSD boot for a self contained system. I document here the steps, so others can follow. Install FreeBSD 14.0 Snapshot RPI3 to USB Flash Drive: download from freebsd.org/where https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20220127-2c449a4c5a3-252673.img.xz 2022 01 27 date snapshot Note: unxz FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20220127-2c449a4c5a3-252673.img.xz dd if=./FreeBSD-ARM64-RPI3.img of=/dev/da1 bs=1m conv=notrunc status=progress Install FreeBSD 14.0 Snapshot RPI3 to USB 3.0 500GB SSD in an external HornetTek metal case Drive enclosure: dd if=./FreeBSD-ARM64-RPI3.img of=/dev/da1p4 bs=1m conv=notrunc status=progress Look at the location difference between a single USB Flash drive stick /dev/da1  and the SDD /dev/da1p4 into a slice (linux primary partition ) versus if I used /dev/da1 for the whole disk. So does the U-Boot have logic to do both to boot from a SSD (1.) boot whole drive and then 2.0 boot a single Slice that has 2 partitions 1.) MSDOS FAT32 2.) BSD with a label. ) So I am missing efibootmrg on aarch64 FreeBSD 14.0 snapshot to set the "boot order". Missing ubootefi.var variables? So look at more details here at https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com {not like a web page with text files, yet I can display pictures I took with a camera here }.AR I have not made the post "Booting 500 GB SSD on FreeBSD-ARM64-14.0 January 27, 2022 snapshot". yet. Simply, I am asking:  1.) Can U-BOOT and UEFI handle booting from an image installed to a slice or does it have to be an image installed to a full disk? How do you point the UEFI loader to select this one slice? Which tools accomplish that? Are those tools already loaded inside the snapshot image downloaded from FreeBSD.org/where ?? I don't have ethernet access here and the internal wifi device does not have a working device driver for the Broadcom wifi.  2.) Is there a method, to boot Rod Smiths rEFInd aaarch64 boot manager to allow FreeBSD 14 ARM64, POP!_OS ARM64, Manjaro Linux ARM64, Raspup 8.2.1 (ARM32) from the same disk?  Is there a UEFI work around using EFIBOOTMGR, EFI commands: printenv , setenv, run bootcmd ?? URLS to read are good resource, that I would read. pss. Hard when you are starting out, to now what commands to issue in which sequence for the desired effect, unless you follow a pattern worked out by someone else. If I run eifbootmgr on my FreeBSD developer machine with the SSD plugged in. It sees the other devices and proceeds to setup the boot order for the development machine, not the SSD disk that has be plugged in termporarily. The answer is something simple, that I have not read about using before. Or so obvious a child could do it. -- Fred Finster email:Fred.Suyimazu@theGalacticZoo.com 971-718-9144 ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com <https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com>; --------------8CJO0Pe5ymtCU0v0PyR8HtR5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <p>I will post details and pictures to <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogpost.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogpost.com</a>; to better explain my confusion<br> </p> <p>I want to thank Bob Prohaska for his little notes on setting up Raspberry Pi 4B at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/u-boot_cheatsheet" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/u-boot_cheatsheet</a>; for booting from a USB SSD disk. <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/</a> Check his other notes on booting Raspberry Pi 3+ and 4B SBCs.<br> </p> <p>I am searching and looking for using EFIBOOTMGR to setup the SSD to boot from a slice. There is an error about NO BootOrder setup and missing ubootefi.var value.</p> <p>So I can boot from a USB 2.0 Flash drive with the FreeBSD 14.0 RPI3 snapshot installed. I did install same image to a slice on the 500GB SATA SSD , but did not make any other changes or settings. Still looking for the Instructions, Dance Steps, what ever it takes to make the SSD boot for a self contained system.</p> <p>I document here the steps, so others can follow. <br> </p> <p>Install FreeBSD 14.0 Snapshot RPI3 to USB Flash Drive:</p> <p>download from <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="freebsd.org/where" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">freebsd.org/where</a>  <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20220127-2c449a4c5a3-252673.img.xz" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20220127-2c449a4c5a3-252673.img.xz</a> 2022 01 27 date snapshot  <br> </p> <p>Note: unxz FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20220127-2c449a4c5a3-252673.img.xz<br> </p> <p>dd if=./FreeBSD-ARM64-RPI3.img of=/dev/da1 bs=1m conv=notrunc status=progress</p> <p>Install FreeBSD 14.0 Snapshot RPI3 to USB 3.0 500GB SSD in an external HornetTek metal case Drive enclosure:</p> <p>dd if=./FreeBSD-ARM64-RPI3.img of=/dev/da1p4 bs=1m conv=notrunc status=progress</p> <p>Look at the location difference between a single USB Flash drive stick /dev/da1  and the SDD /dev/da1p4 into a slice (linux primary partition ) versus if I used /dev/da1 for the whole disk. So does the U-Boot have logic to do both to boot from a SSD (1.) boot whole drive and then 2.0 boot a single Slice that has 2 partitions 1.) MSDOS FAT32 2.) BSD with a label. )</p> <p>So I am missing efibootmrg on aarch64 FreeBSD 14.0 snapshot to set the "boot order". Missing ubootefi.var variables?<br> </p> <p>So look at more details here at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com</a>; {not like a web page with text files, yet I can display pictures I took with a camera here }.AR I have not made the post "Booting 500 GB SSD on FreeBSD-ARM64-14.0 January 27, 2022 snapshot". yet.</p> <p>Simply, I am asking:</p> <p> 1.) Can U-BOOT and UEFI handle booting from an image installed to a slice or does it have to be an image installed to a full disk? How do you point the UEFI loader to select this one slice? Which tools accomplish that? Are those tools already loaded inside the snapshot image downloaded from FreeBSD.org/where ?? I don't have ethernet access here and the internal wifi device does not have a working device driver for the Broadcom wifi.<br> </p> <p> 2.) Is there a method, to boot Rod Smiths rEFInd aaarch64 boot manager to allow FreeBSD 14 ARM64, POP!_OS ARM64, Manjaro Linux ARM64, Raspup 8.2.1 (ARM32) from the same disk?  Is there a UEFI work around using EFIBOOTMGR, EFI commands: printenv , setenv, run bootcmd ??</p> <p>URLS to read are good resource, that I would read.<br> </p> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"> pss. Hard when you are starting out, to now what commands to issue in which sequence for the desired effect, unless you follow a pattern worked out by someone else. If I run eifbootmgr on my FreeBSD developer machine with the SSD plugged in. It sees the other devices and proceeds to setup the boot order for the development machine, not the SSD disk that has be plugged in termporarily. The answer is something simple, that I have not read about using before. Or so obvious a child could do it. -- Fred Finster email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Fred.Suyimazu@theGalacticZoo.com">Fred.Suyimazu@theGalacticZoo.com</a> 971-718-9144 <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com">ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com</a>; </pre> </body> </html> --------------8CJO0Pe5ymtCU0v0PyR8HtR5--
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