From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Mon Dec 28 00:54:09 2015 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 84AEFA51369 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Received: from pmta2.delivery6.ore.mailhop.org (pmta2.delivery6.ore.mailhop.org [54.200.129.228]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 694D11253 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:54:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Received: from ilsoft.org (unknown [73.34.117.227]) by outbound2.ore.mailhop.org (Halon Mail Gateway) with ESMTPSA; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:54:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rev (rev [172.22.42.240]) by ilsoft.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id tBS0s6XV012871; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:54:06 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <1451264046.1369.21.camel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting started with freebsd-arm on Cubox-i2 From: Ian Lepore To: Brett Glass , freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:54:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: <201512272145.OAA28860@mail.lariat.net> References: <201512272145.OAA28860@mail.lariat.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, 28 Dec 2015 00:54:09 -0000 On Sun, 2015-12-27 at 14:45 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > 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 The video support for imx6 chips was just committed a few days ago and isn't in the image you downloaded. The cubox is likely booting just fine and sitting at a login prompt that you can't see. The cubox has a built in usb-serial adapter for the console. Just plug a micro-usb cable into the slot to the right of the sdcard and connect it to any computer with a terminal program (on freebsd use cu -l /dev/cuaU0 -s 115200). -- Ian