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Date:      Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:03:31 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10.3/arm on Raspberry Pi 2
Message-ID:  <CAJuc1zP21_8SoH8dn4Eb%2B2XuiaL69yw_S=3jvK6Qz9t6XQRR7g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160625015923.GA18229@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <CAJuc1zMQ6y7_monLXXo4o5icyHBrbW2i77UrzM39g4__9ytJdw@mail.gmail.com> <20160625015923.GA18229@FreeBSD.org>

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On 25 June 2016 at 13:59, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 01:31:10PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently downloaded FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-arm-armv6-RPI-B.img to try
>> on my Raspberry Pi 2B, and am having problems booting it up. I've
>> dd'ed the image onto a 16Gb SD card, but on boot, my HDMI connected TV
>> just shows the rainbow coloured display. The familiar FreeBSD boot
>> output does not appear. I've re-tried with 10.2-RELEASE and the same
>> problem occurs.
>>
>> I've made sure that the SD card and the Pi is functional - I resused
>> the SD card to boot up OSMC.
>>
>> Did I miss something obvious?
>>
>
> RPI2 isn't supported for 10.3.  You need 11.0.
>

Ah. Thanks for that. I didn't realise that as it wasn't obvious on the
10.3 Release page.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>



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