autobooting FreeBSD on Black Bird

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Sat Jul 6 21:09:03 UTC 2019


On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 10:55:32PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> Tried both of them. But I couldn't see any bootable device.
> Would a keyboard work in combination with petitboot using a monitor.

Well ... here's the sequence of what I did.

First, I ran it headless and talked to petitboot via obmc-console-client.
I think that's how I did the actual install and config but I did not keep
sufficiently detailed notes.  I *do* know that I used the USB stick for
the install image, no matter when I did it.

Later, I plugged in kbd/mouse/monitor and have since been booting
through that method.  (That's how I learned the trick of "you can't
use k/m/m unless you boot petitboot via that method.)

I'm starting to worry that you have a damaged board.  Try it with
k/m/m and see what happens.

mcl


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