Creating FreeBSD/arm bootable SD card for Cubieboards from FreeBSD 11.0 image files for Wintel only users.

[Ganbold Tsagaankhuu]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:15 PM, John W. Kitz <John.Kitz at 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.
>
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