Re: Disk Structures

My mail server is a Raspberry Pi 5 running FreeBSD 14.3-P5.  It has been running for close to a year now.  I have started to bring up another server on a Pi 5, but it is not going well.  I suspect the issue is the power supply appears to be intermittent.  It frequently reboots during the boot process.  I haven't had time to work with that lately.

The various additional chips on the Pi 4 have been integrated into the processor on the Pi 5 and as a result there are not drivers for them.  I don't see any development effort in this area.  I am using a USB ethernet connector.  You also have to use a USB stick formatted with the boot code for the Pi 5.  It is not as clean an installation as the Pi 4, but there is a significant performance improvement with the Pi 5.

-- Doug

> On Dec 18, 2025, at 08:07, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 01:54:04PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> I have a couple of Raspberry Pi 5s.  One of which is a production server for mail.
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>> It works just fine.  
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>> 2. Name: mmcsd0s2
>>  Mediasize: 128124452864 (119G)
>>  type: freebsd
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> Sorry this hasn't anything to do with your question, but I'd like to ask
> please:
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> You're running FreeBSD on the rpi5 fine?
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> I wasn't aware this was possible yet.
> Does onboard ethernet work?
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