SOLVED Re: Raspberry Pi 500 Keyboard with 8 GB dram, trying to boot FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT BETA1 Image

Using a Manjaro linux with the microSD Card mounted the FAT32 MS Basic 
Data root partition,  I unzipped the file Ronald Klop shared  downloaded 
file, RPI5_D0.ZIP  with the command:

unzip -v RPI5_D0.zip

I selected overwrite [yes] , for overwrite the existing files in that 
root partition microsoft-basic-data.  You can view the steps and 
results  here: 
https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2025/10/testing-freebsd-150-beta1-october-11.html

I am happy and excited that now I can do some running and testing 
FreeBSD 15.0 and use the Arm64 Hypervisor,  or just plain build software 
or port an OpenBSD wifi device driver for the Cy43455 SDIO Wifi chip.   
Will setup /usr/src to make buildworld  ;  make buildkernel    Also 
setup poudriere package builder as I documented on  my blog  
ghostbsd-arm64.blogpost.com.   Exciting times, now that I have gotten 
over the hurdle to boot FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard model 
with 8GB dram memory.  Will document more tomorrow.  Happy that it is 
working to boot FreeBSD today.   Thank you fellow Arm64 users for 
building these FreeBSD open Source tools, that have a low entry 
barrier.  Thank you OpenBSD developers for porting the Cy43455 SDIO wifi 
device driver to the Raspi 4B, 400, 5, 500 models.

Fred Finster

On 10/15/25 2:51 AM, Fred Finster wrote:
> Just trying to get some part of FreeBSD booting on the Raspberry Pi 
> 500 keyboard model.   Can someone share their working Rpi500 or their 
> Rpi5  setup, configuration files with me and others lurking here, 
> please?  Your competition RaspberryPi debian Linux Operating System,  
> is so simple to insert a blank microSD card  or a blank USB flash disk 
> drive stick, and then download a full operating system and write it 
> either to the microSD or the USB flash disk drive stick.   After 
> writing,  reboot and now you can access the internet via wifi and play 
> audio through the televison monitor speakers.   Watch your youtube 
> videos to learn more about FreeBSD and Arm64 via the Robonuggie  
> Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/c/robonuggie
>
> Share what you can to help me and others use FreeBSD Arm64 on a 
> Raspberry Pi 500  keyboard model.
>
>
> I have followed the wiki entry, but not quite there to boot up 
> FreeBSD.  https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205 Raspberry Pi 
> 5 Boot stuff    I have the FreeBSD Arm64 image written into  the 
> microSD card.  I have the config.txt file and three other files 
> written to the USB flash drive stick.  I have the master firmware 
> files installed.  I have the 3 UEFI files uncompressed from that zip 
> file , and written to the root directory of a USB flash drive stick.
>
> Use the Tree command to show what files you have setup in which 
> directory.
>
> Use the md5deep command to create an audit trail for all the files 
> used in your RPI5 setup.
>
> https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/config_txt.html 
> Config.txt file command explanations
>
> My recent blogposts
>
> https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2025/09/setting-up-freebsd-on-raspberry-pi-5.html 
> My blog post with details
>
> https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2025/10/testing-freebsd-150-beta1-october-11.html 
> Todays blog capture
>
> https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2025/10/raspberry-pi-master-firmware-zip-file.html 
> Master Firmware zip file
>
>
> https://magexmonitor.com/raspberry-pi-5-monitor/  display monitor 
> commands to  set in the config.txt file
>
> https://t.me/+ST6N61pnu3Di8zgk  Telegram Arm Open Source group, where 
> we can interact and share working files.
>
> I am tired, now.  I have tried this booting several times.  I do not 
> have the Jeff Probe setup or a 3.3v serial port to USB device setup 
> for capturing serial port printk statements coming from the boot 
> process.  Just frustrated to not have a clear working, tested, and 
> audited to confirm the exact file contents for the usb flash drive and 
> the microSD card with FreeBSD Arm64 files.
>
> Your thoughts, setup of the files,  setup of Jeff Probe JTAG and 3.3V 
> serial port, setup of the 3.3V serial port to capture the print kernel 
> messages.     Share what useful knowledge you have to answer these 
> questions.
>
> Respectfully,    Fred L. Finster
>
> PS.  Have made this email a plain text email with no hyper links 
> involved to allow pass through the email servers.  Previous emails 
> with attachments or a photo have gone into FreeBSD.org bit bucket.   
> From this activity, I intend to share files and configuration files on 
> the Telegram Arm Open Source group.   here
>
> https://t.me/+ST6N61pnu3Di8zgk  Telegram Arm Open Source group, where 
> we can interact and share working files.
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205     FreeBSD Raspberry 
> Pi 5  wiki entry
>