Raspberry Pi 2 Current Stable Installation

daBee

daBee

Hi folks.

Spent the day wiping an 8 GB Kingston SD Card, and it simply will not install. I've tried various versions of FBSD and I can't get anything to boot.

Can someone recommend a working image that I should be using? Any help appreciated.

Cheers
 
FreeBSD11-Release works as advertised on RPi2 including HDMI.

What specific method are you using to write your image to microSD?
 
I was using dd, but it was not working at all. So I mounted the image (MacOS) and copied in the Finder and now it says it can't load the kernel. But it's a step closer. I'll try cp now...didn't work either. Same error, can't load the kernel.
 
Here is my FreeBSD dd command for my crochet RPi2 image:
dd if=FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-RPI2-305354_308093M.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync

I think MacOS has a DD-GUI tool you can download as well.
 
daBee said:
So I mounted the image (MacOS) and copied in the Finder and now it says it can't load the kernel. But it's a step closer. I'll try cp now...didn't work either. Same error, can't load the kernel.
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This only copies the files, not the partition table and, more importantly, the bootloader. Use dd(1).
 
Yep, I've been using that. Takes forever to wipe an SD card, but it's the safest from what I gather. And you have to close the app for it to release the drive. As of current, I can't find any combination of anything that will work.

Edited:

Tried dd to rdisk5s1 and the write will work. But no bootup at all. No activity on the unit whatsoever.
 
There is no way dd to a single slice will work. You must write the image to the whole drive.
All Arm images include 2 slices. MBR with uboot and UFS with the FreeBSD system.
Code: 
root@rpi2:~ # gpart show
=>      63  15759297  mmcsd0  MBR  (7.5G)
        63    102375       1  !12  [active]  (50M)
    102438       986          - free -  (493K)
    103424  15649792       2  freebsd  (7.5G)
  15753216      6144          - free -  (3.0M)

=>       0  15649792  mmcsd0s2  BSD  (7.5G)
         0  15649792         1  freebsd-ufs  (7.5G)

root@rpi2:~ # ls /dev/mmcsd*
/dev/mmcsd0   /dev/mmcsd0s1   /dev/mmcsd0s2   /dev/mmcsd0s2a
I suppose you could call it 3 slices.
mmcsd0=whole drive
mmcsd0s1=MBR slice with uboot and bootloader
mmcsd0s2=BSD slice(No content like a placeholder)
mmcsd0s2a=UFS slice with FreeBSD
 
Phishfry said:
There is no way dd to a single slice will work. You must write the image to the whole drive.
All Arm images include 2 slices. MBR with uboot and UFS with the FreeBSD system.
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That was it. Thank you for that. Installed FreeBSD-11.0-STABLE-arm-armv6-RPI2-20170210-r313553.img.
 
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