single user mode freebsd11/rpi2

[Ulrich Grey]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:49:36 +0100
John <freebsd-lists at potato.growveg.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:21:16AM -0400, Paul Mather wrote:
> 
> > Are you using a serial console?  When you do "shutdown now" it is probably 
> > dropping into the serial console.  IIRC, it's the only type of console supported 
> > on the Raspberry Pi right now, though I may be mistaken.
> > 
> > (I've only ever used a serial console on the Raspberry Pi.)
> 
> It's highly likely that I'm being an idiot here.
> 
> What I have is a keyboard plugged into the pi via the USB and a monitor
> connected via the HDMI socket.
> 
> The image I'm using is from here:
> 
> http://download.raspbsd.org/FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-RPI2-286947.img.gz
> (main page is http://raspbsd.org)
> 
> It says:
> 
> "Designed to be connected to a display and used with a keyboard/mouse. 
> Currently no GUI is enabled."
> 
> It has a separate section for console images but none are available.
> Hmmmm.
> 
> The other way of doing what I want to do is to remove the sdcard and
> sticks, mount them on another machine and move the filesystems round
> that way. 
> -- 
> John

I think you need a USB to serial adaptor.
See thread: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2015-May/011466.html