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john smith:
> 
> 
> Hello all
> 
> I've just bought a small r-pi rev B (512Mb), and still can't figure why
> it won't boot any FreeBSD images found on the net.
> 
> Tested with raspbian (debian) and even riscos: works just fine (my SD
> doesn't seem to be involved);
> But any freebsd based image (my latest, most promising was
> http://files.khubla.com/freebsd-raspberry-pi/FreeBSD-HEAD-r255363-ARMv6-RPI-B-SOUND-4GB.img.tgz
> ) but still no luck..
> Other tried images were the latest from:
> http://www.db.net/downloads/
> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/rpi/
> 
> Each time, the "act" led blinks nearly one second and stop there....
> 
> Is there a specific firmware I should have flashed before trying to boot
> freebsd or something else everybody knows, except me ;-) ?

Hey John.

It should boot fine.

I would do a couple of things:

First, try watching it boot with video out connected and see what
happens and where it's borking.

Second, look at the device slices and make sure /boot/msdos is there
with the standard txt files that RPi needs.

I haven't used Tom K's images in a while, but I would assume they are fine.

g