Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:44:50 +0800 From: Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <ganbold@gmail.com> To: John.Kitz@xs4all.nl Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Creating FreeBSD/arm bootable SD card for Cubieboards from FreeBSD 11.0 image files for Wintel only users. Message-ID: <CAGtf9xNqs4awP8MZP1gLtWsycZBYVaAuyGFtC_P=wWnJv78Awg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58306c9b.4e79630a.a07d9.cf58SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> References: <58306c9b.4e79630a.a07d9.cf58SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
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On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:15 PM, John W. Kitz <John.Kitz@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I believe I haven't seen an answer to my question yet. > > The reason for asking is that in the early to mid '90's I ran an early > version (I'm guessing something like 5.x or 6.x) of FreeBSD for a while on > an old PC, which, although it had a CD-ROM drive, could only boot from its > floppy drive. At the time that wasn't a problem because the FreeBSD project > provided a utility named fdimage, which allowed users to create a bootable > floppy from an image file, boot from that floppy and continue the > installation process from CD-ROM. > > To rephrase my question; am I correct in assuming that the FreeBSD release > 11.0 SD-card image file contains everything one needs to do a first time > installation of FreeBSD on a cubieboard or cubieboard2? I.e. I do not or do > no longer need to install the SPL loader and U-boot programs on the > SD-card, > since they are either an integral part of or not needed when using the > image > file. > It should be full image including spl and u-boot. Ganbold > > Regards, Jk. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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