FreeBSD aarch64 on Apple M1 VM

[Dan Kotowski]

> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to as, in case please point me
>
> toward the correct place... (/dev/toilet :-) )
>
> I was trying to run FreeBSD aarch64 in a Parallel Desktop VM on a Apple
>
> M1 Minimacbut wasn't able to install it.
>
> I tried different ISOs with different results:
>
> * FreeBSD-12.2-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-20201203-r368289-bootonly.iso
>
> * FreeBSD-12.2-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-20201224-r368787-bootonly.iso
>
> *
>
> FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20201224-3cc0c0d66a0-255241-bootonly.iso
>
> FreeBSD 12.2 boots but hangs ad "Mounting local filesystems" (see
>
> attached screenshot).
>
> FreeBSD 13.0 just shows a white block in the upper left corner but
>
> doesn't boot.
>
> I tried to fiddle with some settings of the VM with no particular
>
> results.
>
> Do you have any troubleshooting suggestion?

Let's focus on 13-CURRENT.

Could you do a verbose boot and share the output?

Also the lists stripped your attachments, so there's not much to see :(

--Dan Kotowski