RPI4 Install r357606 test 09.02.2020 failed

[Mark Millard]

On 2020-Feb-10, at 11:26, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 02:48:14PM -0800, Mark Millard via freebsd-arm wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> If you want a build that works, use the kernel from head
>> -r356767 . The next head version ( -r356776 ) is where
>> the broken status starts for RPi4 and RPi3. RPi4B's with
>> 4 GiBYTes of RAM fail to boot. As I understand, at least
>> some forms of RPi3 boot but are messed up, such as only
>> running 1 core. (Not surprising given the PSCI version
>> problem which happens there as well.)
> 
> Ran into a spot of trouble on RPi3. Managed to build and 
> install the -r356776 kernel and run a single-user buildworld.
> 
> Unfortunately, the machine reported the "invalid pmap" panic
> during installworld. Now it stalls on boot and can't find
> any alternative kernels. 

The following copies of the head -r356767 kernel materials
are available, and likely will be so for about a year:

https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/head/r356767/arm64/aarch64/kernel.txz
https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/head/r356767/arm64/aarch64/kernel-dbg.txz

Presuming the microSD card that needs a kernel
is mounted on /mnt :

# mv /mnt/boot/kernel /mnt/boot/kerbad
# tar -xpf PATH-FOR/kerenel.txz -C/mnt
# tar -xpf PATH-FOR/kerenel-dbg.txz -C/mnt
# umount /mnt

You might want to remove /mnt/boot/kernel instead
or to use some other name than kerbad.

You might not want to update the debug information
to match the -r356767 kernel.

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Mark Millard
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