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Date:      Thu, 31 Dec 2015 09:47:45 +0100
From:      Martin Birgmeier <la5lbtyi@aon.at>
To:        Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting a RPI 1 B+
Message-ID:  <5684EBB1.40205@aon.at>
In-Reply-To: <20151231055051.119d587a@X220.alogt.com>
References:  <56840940.20709@aon.at> <20151231055051.119d587a@X220.alogt.com>

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Thank you everyone for all the tips.

It turned out that the 11.0 image
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv6/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20151229-r292858.img.xz
worked immediately.

-- Martin

On 12/30/15 22:50, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:41:36 +0100
> Martin Birgmeier <la5lbtyi@aon.at> wrote:
>
>> I have prepared a (16 GB) micro SDHC card from
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv6/ISO-IMAGES/10.2/FreeBSD-10.2-STABLE-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20151229-r292855.img.xz
>> (i.e., dd'd the 480 MB to the card).
>>
> I use Samsung and SanDisk with success.
>
> I also found out that FreeBSD 11 has a higher chance of booting than
> 10.2. 10.2 is more picky about the cards in use.
>
> You can also take the card out and back to a running machine and check
> the settings in /etc/rc.conf. The file system should use after the
> first start the full capacity. If not, the system never started.
>
> Erich
>
>




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