FreeBSD 10.0 image and build script for EdgeRouter Lite

[Stacey Son]

On Feb 9, 2014, at 5:58 AM, Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
>> I have a little thing that might be useful for anyone who wants to give
>> FreeBSD a try on the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite, a ~US$90 Octeon-based 3-port
>> Ethernet router[1].
>> 
>> This script will build an image for the device from a FreeBSD source tree:
>> 
>> http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL/mkerlimage
> 
> I tried to build an image on 10.0-REL, which worked well, thank you very
> much.
> 
> Can someone help me how to boot this image using qemu ?
> 
> I tried:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-mips64 -m 256 -M mips \
>  -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:01 \
>  -kernel kernel \
>  -serial stdio \
>  -vnc "192.168.0.10:1" \
>  image.img
> 
> But nothing appears on the VNC (same with -serial stdio) ?

See https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/MipsEmulation for building a kernel and disk image that may be more suitable for qemu system mode.

Best Regards,

-stacey.