Re: Raspberry Pi 4 and M.2 SATA SSD recognized but not booting or available for install - unsupported interface

ZFS  ,  UFS  here are some webpages for Raspberry Pi 4B running FreeBSD 
14.0-RELEASE


I can show you how to transfer files from a booted USB Flash Disk drive 
Stick to make your own USB SSD with a bootable ZFS file system using 
about 4 or 5 shell script files to make the move of copying files from a 
USB flash drive to a ZFS USB SSD.

If you help me test, find errors, make corrections.  I will gladly help 
you Julf and others who are interested in running FreeBSD on a USB SSD 
with an installed ZFS file system.

This is the bootable GhostBSD image I created.  You can use the FreeBSD 
14.0-RELEASE RPI image.

I have setup a shell script to download  the FreeBSD image for your and 
to uncompress this compressed XZ image.

Select '0' to download the checksum value
Select '1' to download the FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE image
Select '2' to download the GhostBSD-Arm64 image file from my package 
NGINX web server http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/
Select '3' to download from any URL you select


This is a 6k shell script file to download and perform the tasks for you.
http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/write_freebsd_img_dd_to_da1.sh

http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/Ghost14_5G_selfbuilt_raspi4b_Feb27_2.img.xz 
This is a 728Megabyte file to downloaded by the previous 6k shell script 
file when selecting option '2' .


500 GB setup for UFS ?
https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2022/02/booting-500-gb-ssd-on-freebsd-arm64-140.html

500 GB setup for Raspberry Pi 4B with FreeBSD O/S
https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2023/07/learning-zfs-on-root-setup-for.html

https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2024/04/create-ghostbsd-usb-ssd-500gb-or-larger.html 
This is most for x86_64 but the commands are the same.

https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2023/10/honey-i-broke-my-zfs-usb-sata-ssd-1-tb.html 
Here are short details, about how I fixed a boot problem with my ZFS 
disk for Raspberry Pi 4B.

https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2024/01/hdmi-audio-sound-patches-into-ghostbsd.html 
Here are details for setting up the audio patch files to compile for 
FreeBSD and GhostBSD

Here are details for setting up the 4 shell script files to create a ZFS 
USB SSD.

https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2023/12/zfs-boot-on-root-setup-for-usb-ssd.html

I am sending now, Julf.  Reach out to me.  I can help you achieve a 
working Desktop on Arm64 booting from a USB SSD.

Fred Finster
fred@thegalacticzoo.com
fredfinster58@gmail.com


> */From:/* Johan Helsingius <julf_at_Julf.com>
> */Date:/* Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:47:52 UTC
> On 11/04/2024 19:38, Mark Millard wrote:
> > Which image(s)?
>
> I think it was the memstick one.
>
> > Only the likes of, say,
> > 
> > FreeBSD-14.0-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20240404-72c3d91294c4-267114.img.xz
> > and:
> > FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20240404-112783ebbc31-269103.img.xz
> > and:
> > FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz
> > 
> > are set up with the extra materials that I referenced for the RPi*'s. Note:
> > Those are UFS based, not ZFS based.
>
> Ah! I see! Bummer that none of them are ZFS based, but I guess I can
> live with UFS on a RPi - it just means I have to have yet another
> backup procedure.
>
> > What did you put in da1p1 (efiboot0) ? That area you have
> > to deal with for bsdinstall usage. Some folks extract and
> > copy over what is in the msdosfs in a:
> > 
> > *-arm64-aarch64-RPI-*.img.xz
> > 
> > as a means of getting an officially-built set of such
> > materials when they want to customize other aspects.
>
> Would that make it possible to do a ZFS-based environment?
>
> 	Julf
>