MIPS installing and etherswitch questions

[Joe Holden]

Booting is the easy bit, but since you have no serial console - you 
won't know what has gone wrong, which is the reason I have 750UP and 
750GL sitting here idle...

On the other hand, FreeBSD will boot on the CRS, and you can see via 
serial what is going on... however theres no NAND support yet so it is 
NFS only (and also no switch support so can't configure either the 
onboard switch or the 25 port gig switch)


On 14/03/2014 13:59, Özkan KIRIK wrote:
> Thank you very much Milan,
>
> I did a bit research about booting freebsd on RB750UP. When you push reset
> time until leds goes down and up, system boots by PXE boot.
> I think, we can boot by this way. and write image to flash. I'll try it.
>
> Does FreeBSD works healty on Ubiquiti Router Station Pro ?
>
> Best regards,
> Ozkan
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Milan Obuch <freebsd-mips at dino.sk> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:03:41 +0200
>> "Özkan KIRIK" <ozkan.kirik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm interested with FreeBSD MIPS.
>>> Which devices can boot FreeBSD from onboard flash?
>>> Can we use etherswitch ports as network interfaces ?
>>>
>>> I have an Mikrotik RB750UP. I saw that FreeBSD can boot over network.
>>> Can freebsd be installed to onboard flash?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> if you want to do some research and development, it helps. Main trouble
>> here is, if I am not mistaken, the RB750 does not have serial console.
>> This would be great help. Basically, there is support for booting from
>> onboard flash, but it depends. Mikrotik devices have RouterBoot for
>> starting an OS, so if you could but some image containing FreeBSD on
>> your device, it could work. Problem is exact image construction. To put
>> prepared image to flash, one can use Mikrotik's NetInstall, if it
>> accepts an image. I did not test this possibility yet.
>>
>> I strongly prefer having serial console, which enables me to work with
>> kernel even if something does not work right. This way I can configure
>> RouterBoot to load a kernel from network using DHCP/TFTP servers.
>>
>> Etherswitch can be used as full (depends on chip used) featured vlan
>> capable switch, so if CPU port is arge1 (as in a RouterStationPro from
>> Ubiquiti I have), you could make arge1.1, arge1.2 up to defined max
>> number of vlan groups arge1.n interfaces and configuring the switch the
>> way you need. It does not yet work for me in every detail, but well
>> enough for three externally accessible ports.
>>
>> Mikrotik devices are good as they are, but it is sometimes hard to find
>> relevant info on them, they are a bit 'closed' in their own world.
>> Ubiquiti devices are somewhat more 'open', but you can every time try
>> to find an answer in OpenWrt sources, if you can find working kernel
>> for your device and can work with Linux sources.
>>
>> In any case, if you think it is interesting for you, please do some
>> research and I am sure if you will have any question, someone will help
>> you.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Milan
>>
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