autobooting FreeBSD on Black Bird

Michael Tuexen tuexen at freebsd.org
Sat Jul 6 20:55:37 UTC 2019


> On 6. Jul 2019, at 22:36, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 10:05:54PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>> I didn't download the image on the host, but on a separate computer
>> and then created a USB stick. However, this didn't work since I could
>> not get USB to work.
> 
> Hmm, it worked for me (using the back panel USB).
Tried both of them. But I couldn't see any bootable device.
Would a keyboard work in combination with petitboot using a monitor.
I also tried that and it didn't work.
Since USB also doesn't work with FreeBSD, I'm not sure if I'm doing
anything wrong.

Can you see USB devices from FreeBSD?
> 
> Did you download the .iso?  You should; I have heard that the .img file
> does not function.
Yes, I used the .iso.

Best regards
Michael
> 
> mcl



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