Re: Which FreeBSD image file should be used in conjunction with idbloader.img and u-boot.itb ?

From: Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 23:45:26 UTC
Hello 風來散人 :

root@Z390-AORUS-PRO-DEST:/mnt/zroot2/zroot2/OS/ISO/BSD/FreeBSD/arm64/Radxa-3w/img#
dd if=FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-ROCKPRO64.img | pv | dd
of=/dev/sdf
10485760+0 records inMiB/s] [
                                                 <=>                 ]
10485760+0 records out
5368709120 bytes (5.4 GB, 5.0 GiB) copied, 1238.67 s, 4.3 MB/s
5.00GiB 0:20:38 [4.13MiB/s] [
                                                   <=>               ]
10485760+0 records in
10485760+0 records out
5368709120 bytes (5.4 GB, 5.0 GiB) copied, 1241.89 s, 4.3 MB/s

root@Z390-AORUS-PRO-DEST:/mnt/zroot2/zroot2/OS/ISO/BSD/FreeBSD/arm64/Radxa-3w/img#
dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/sdf seek=64 bs=512 conv=sync
392+0 records in
392+0 records out
200704 bytes (201 kB, 196 KiB) copied, 0.090099 s, 2.2 MB/s

root@Z390-AORUS-PRO-DEST:/mnt/zroot2/zroot2/OS/ISO/BSD/FreeBSD/arm64/Radxa-3w/img#
dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/sdf seek=16384 bs=512 conv=sync
2455+0 records in
2455+0 records out
1256960 bytes (1.3 MB, 1.2 MiB) copied, 0.305848 s, 4.1 MB/s

= NO HDMI SIGNAL.

Someone can help me ? Thanks very much.


On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello. Is this order the correct one ?
>
> # dd if=FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-ROCKPRO64.img | pv | dd of=/dev/sdh
>
> # dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/sdh seek=64 bs=512 conv=sync
>
> # dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/sdh seek=16384 bs=512 conv=sync
>
>
> Not sure if it will work,because today I tried like this and it didn't
> work :
>
> # dd if=FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-mini-memstick.img | pv | dd of=/dev/sdh
>
> # dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/sdh seek=64 bs=512 conv=sync
>
> # dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/sdh seek=16384 bs=512 conv=sync
>
>
> Do you say that  FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-ROCKPRO64.img is the
> correct image to use and FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-mini-memstick.img
> is not ?
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM 風來散人 <furaisanjin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Mario.
>>
>> # dd if=idbloader.img of=FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-ROCKPRO64.img
>>> seek=64 bs=512 conv=sync,notrunc # dd if=u-boot.itb
>>> of=FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-ROCKPRO64.img seek=16384 bs=512
>>> conv=sync,notrunc # dd if=FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-ROCKPRO64.img
>>> | pv | dd of=/dev/sdh
>>
>>
>> If you do dd in this order, I think you overwrite u-boot by
>> FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-ROCKPRO64.img.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> furaisanjin
>>
>>
>
> --
> Mario.
>


-- 
Mario.