Installing or booting FreeBSD 10.2 on BeagleBone Black

[Brad Davis]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:13:11PM +0200, Leonardo Lazcano wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I?m new to this BBB rev C and new to FreeBSD. I tried to install FreeBSD on
> > the BBB without any luck. Somehow the BBB boots correctly when using a BBB
> > "Flasher" image(eg. BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.09.04) but not when using a
> > FreeBSD image (I have tried different ones). I have also tried 2 different
> > microSD cards with no luck.
> > 
> > When I put the microSD card on the BBB and I press and hold the Boot button
> > and then power up, nothing seems to happen. I also tried without pressing
> > the Boot button but the I get 3 led lit and nothing else happens.
> > 
> > Any ideas what is wrong?
> 
> FreeBSD boots using serial console, that means there is no output on
> the HDMI.
> FreeBSD also don't start any LED blinking action as other OS do, so no
> LED output either.

I wrote a program to do that, let me get it reviewed and put in the ports
tree.


Regards,
Brad Davis