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Date:      Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:50:17 -0500
From:      Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
To:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Raspberry Pi2 odd booting problem
Message-ID:  <50bcb1c1-ea4d-f53f-0595-dd7df7841f70@denninger.net>

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So I'm trying to modify an existing SD card image to do something
different.  I imaged the card, re-wrote it onto a new card, and then
mounted the FreeBSD partition.  All was well doing this.

Next, I did a "newfs -U /dev/da3s2a" to clear the FreeBSD partition and
then wrote a *different* build back onto it using pax.  Why do this
rather than image the (other) card?  Because it's a hell of a lot faster
and you only write part of the card instead of all of it.  This should
work, and does on Intel-based systems without a problem.

Butttttt.... not this time.  /dev/ufs/rootfs is not there when the
system boots and the mount of the root filesystem fails.  If I plug a
keyboard and monitor in and hit "?" I can see the partition and if I
specify THAT as "ufs:partitionmame" the system comes up.

So what's going on here?  All I did to the existing format on the card
was run a newfs on the UFS partition and then replace the files, which
really isn't any different than what you do when you're doing a manual
install on an Intel box, and suddenly what I get is non-functional --
some part of the kernel's idea of how the device tree lays out for that
SD card (with the ufs partition under /dev/ufs) disappeared on me.

Any ideas how this got boogered up?  I can fix it of course but I'd
prefer not to wait the hour for the SD card image method per-card!

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