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Date:      Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:00:32 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        =?UTF-8?Q?Mika=C3=ABl_Urankar?= <mikael.urankar@gmail.com>,  "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 11.0-RC2 getting stuck on a Raspberry Pi 2 model B during boot
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On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wro=
te:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:05:28 +0200
> Mika=C3=ABl Urankar <mikael.urankar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2016-09-16 20:34 GMT+02:00 Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl>:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Because I had mixed experiences using Qemu (some versions work, some
>> > don't, etc.) I decided to buy a Raspberry Pi 2 model B and a Raspberry
>> > Pi 3 to do my ARM hacking.
>> >
>> > First step: trying to get the Raspberry Pi 2 model B to boot. What I'v=
e done:
>> >
>> > 1. Downloaded the .img from freebsd.org
>> > 2. On Mac OS X, copied the 1 GB image to a 16 GB SD card:
>> >
>> > sudo dd if=3DFreeBSD-11.0-RC2-arm-armv6-RPI2.img of=3D/dev/rdisk2 bs=
=3D1024k
>> >
>> > 3. Put the SD card in the Raspberry Pi 2 and boot it.
>> >
>> > The result: it gets stuck during boot. I also just discovered that I
>> > don't have a spare USB keyboard, so I can't 'boot -v' yet.
>> >
>> > Anyway, I've taken a photo I of the television. Is this a known
>> > issue that has a trivial workaround? If not, then I guess I'll have to
>> > start debugging...
>> >
>> > http://80386.nl/pub/rpi2-stuck.jpg
>>
>> The first boot is always long because of growfs, how long did you wait?
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>
>  This is true, especially with slow or large sd card, it can take a very
> long time.
>  I suggest to buy an USB<->UART adapter because if you don't need it
> now you will later.
>  Also if you have access to your dhcpd logs, watch for ip attribution.
> All ARM images are configured to do dhcp and you can ssh with user/pass
> freebsd/freebsd.

Sometimes I think we should have a hook in the boot scripts to blink
the LEDs in different ways for different parts of the boot...

Warner



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