Adding a swap partition to the March 5 snapshot image

[bob prohaska]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 09:42:01PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
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> On 2020-Mar-5, at 21:26, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On 2020-Mar-5, at 20:54, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >> I've been trying for a while to set up an armv7 RPI2 with a single
> >> root partition plus a swap partition at the end of mmcsd0. Letting
> >> firstboot invoke growfs seems not to help, since growfs leaves no
> >> space for swap.
> >> 
> >> Attempts using gpart in single-user give the appearance of 
> >> working, but on reboot the machine stops at the mountroot prompt.
> >> This method worked well in July of 2018. Seemingly, no more. 
> >> 
> >> Has something changed? 
> >> 
> >> Mounting the armv7 card on a second Freebsd box and making the changes 
> >> appears to work also, but on the initial boot (firstboot disabled) the 
> >> machine stops at the mountroot prompt on initial boot.
> >> 
> >> If there's a better way to pursue the same end I'd be grateful for
> >> a hint. Perhaps giving a swap size  parameter to firstboot? 
> > 
> > You have not reported what shows if you enter a "?" command at the
> > mountroot prompt. (As I remember that lists what mount root
> > classifies as available.)
> > 
> > That might prove to be useful information.
> > 
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> Ahh, "March 5 snapshot image"? The only head 20200305 images are
> for amd64: everything else failed to build for head -r358658 .
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> Are you using stable/12 images? Those built ( 12.1-STABLE -r358659 ),
> including for RPI2.
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FreeBSD-12.1-STABLE-arm-armv7-RPI2-20200305-r358659.img

Same trouble with the Feb 27 image. 

> All stable/11 builds failed.
> 
> (You seem to usually use head but did not comment on using
> stable/12. So I'm just checking the context here.)
>
Only on the Pi3. My intent was to set up production 8-) machines
on new media, which are early Pi2 v 1.1 boards.

I'll repeat the exercise in the morning and try to keep a transcript.

Thanks for replying!

bob prohaska