Can't get 11.0-RELEASE to boot on Banana PI M3

[Mark Millard]

On 2016-Nov-25, at 12:28 AM, Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:


> Thanks for all the info - very useful!
> 
> I was hoping that I could get by without hooking up serial equipment,
> but the Ethernet port never comes up.

Does the Ethernet port have a light turned on when it is connected
and has had a chance to boot? If it does then the boot got far
enough to do that much.

> Now, just to make sure I get this right - hooking up a serial port in
> the FreeBSD notes means using a USB/serial interface on the BPI, right?
> (Rather than expecting serial on some of the BPI's I/O pins.)

There are 3 separate pins next to the Ethernet port that have the
kernel messages and such and allow a login after booting.

Unlike a RPI2B running FreeBSD stable/11 I've had problems with
dropped text when connected to the BPi-M3. (Same cable connected
to the same old Mac laptop [via USB] running the same software.)

> -- 
> Regards,
> Mike

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Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net