Booting a FreeBSD kernel on the WiTiboard. (Was: Re: Initial support for MT7620)

[Stanislav Galabov]

> On Dec 22, 2015, at 14:14, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 22-12-2015 13:07, Stanislav Galabov wrote:
>> 
>>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 14:03, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 22-12-2015 12:54, Stanislav Galabov wrote:
>>>> Hi Willem,
>>>> 
>>>> Can you try with this kernel please:
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/t1wevprzlsfegr0/kernel.uboot?dl=0
>>> 
>>> That really works. :)
>>> Boot output below.
>>> 
>>> Guess I'm going to need to find a disk to hookup to one of the sataports...
>>> In the mean time also started a MIPS build for MT7620.
>>> 
>>> But this afternoon is reserved for Xmas shopping, so I won't be back with
>>> results for a while.
>>> 
>>> --WjW
>> 
>> I’m glad it works for you :-)
>> Yeah, I’m probably not going to be around myself starting tomorrow evening until the beginning of the new year sometime… I’ll read my e-mails, but won’t be able to do any work most likely.
> 
> I see that the image searches for a bootdis called:
> 	/dev/ada0s1
> 
> So if I attach a disk on my build machine
> 	slice it up (dangerously)
> 	partition it the classic way
> 	install the mips stuff on it
> 
> I run the risk that it will boot. :)
> 
> Happy holidays,
> --WjW

It boots for me. I am using an old laptop HDD with MBR and if I recall correctly I simply did a newfs on the partition on which I installed the mips world.

Best wishes,
Stanislav