FreeBSD 12.1 on Raspberry Pi 3B+, completely headless?

[David Mehler]

Hello,

I'll look in to a monitor and keyboard, but given where the Pi is that
could a bit getting one there.

One thing I thought of is do I have the right image? If it's suppose
to boot, and at least get an ip and respond to ping, but if it's
getting stuck in single-user mode then maybe my image is wrong. This
is the filename of the image I wrote to the sd card for the Pi:

FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI3.img

Thanks.
Dave.

On 5/18/20, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 06:10:41PM -0400, David Mehler wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thanks for the confirmation that onboard ethernet works. I've booted
>> the pi and I'm not seeing it on the network. I've tried mounting the
>> freebsd partition under a linux virtual machine which it's fdisk shows
>> it as /dev/sdd2 later in the display shows it up as 15. I can not get
>> it to mount so am not sure what rc.conf is doing, I was hoping it
>> would get a dhcp address since it's plugged directly in. I also did
>> add a blank ssh file to the /dev/sdd1 partition.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>
> Have you tried plugging in a monitor and keyboard temporarily, just
> to see what's going on? My guess is that it's getting stuck in single-
> user mode, or maybe not booting at all for some reason. It definitely
> should pick up a DHCP connection if it gets to multi-user. I'd expect
> that to answer ping if nothing else.
>
> My only experience re Linux is with Raspbian, and Raspbian absolutely
> cannot mount ufs filesystems, so what you're seeing seems normal.
>
> hth,
>
> bob prohaska
>
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>>
>>
>> On 5/18/20, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 05:25:40PM -0400, David Mehler wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> Does the onboard ethernet on the pi 3b+ work or do I have to go USB
>> >> wireless all the way?
>> >>
>> > Wired ethernet works fine on the 3B, I believe the + is the same.
>> >
>> > hth,
>> >
>> > bob prohaska
>> >
>> >> Thanks.
>> >> Dave.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 5/18/20, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 01:02:32PM -0400, David Mehler wrote:
>> >> >> Hello,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I've got a Raspberry Pi 3b+ that I'd like to put FreeBSD 12.1 on.
>> >> >> It
>> >> >> is completely headless the only thing it has is it's power
>> >> >> connection.
>> >> >> I have downloaded and wrote to sd the latest 12.1 amd64 rpi3 image.
>> >> >                                                     ^^^
>> >> >                                                    Typo?
>> >> >
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