GENERICSD images?

[Russell Haley]

On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 8:28 AM Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de> wrote:

> When and how would you use the GENERICSD images?
> I assume they have a generic kernel, but do they need a specific u-boot
> installed before they can get used?
> What systems are supported?
>

Hi Bernd,

I could be mistaken, but I think you are referring to the SD images that
can be downloaded for various Arm boards found here:
https://www.freebsd.org/where.html

See the SD Image column for each currently supported FreeBSD version. These
images are for "well supported" Arm boards and are an easy way to get up
and running. To apply an image to an SD card, I typically use
xzcat <img-name-here>.img.xz | dd of=/dev/da0 bs=1M

where ./dev/da0 is whatever device your SD card is found at (check dmesg if
you're not sure. "geom part list /dev/da0" can also be helpful )

UFS will automatically grow the partition to the size of the SD card on
first boot.

If you wish to create your own image, you can look at crochet (a build too
written in bash) or there is an excellent write up by Udit on building
custom images here:
http://uditagarwal.in/index.php/2018/04/17/building-freebsds-sdio-driver-for-beaglebone-black/

Hope that helps?
Russ

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