Booting FreeBSD on a BananaPi

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Jan 2 06:51:49 UTC 2017


On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Koz Ross <koz.ross at retro-freedom.nz> wrote:
>> Crazy question: Did you uncompress the image to get a .img file before
>> you dd'd it to the SD card?
>>
>> Warner
>>
>
> Naturally - it'd be silly to flash a compressed image.

OK. You'd be surprised how often that happens...

So the next question is what, specific model you are doing this with?
There are many different types of Banana Pi's these days.

Warner

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