FreeBSD 10.3/arm on Raspberry Pi 2

[Jonathan Chen]

On 25 June 2016 at 13:59, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 01:31:10PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently downloaded FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-arm-armv6-RPI-B.img to try
>> on my Raspberry Pi 2B, and am having problems booting it up. I've
>> dd'ed the image onto a 16Gb SD card, but on boot, my HDMI connected TV
>> just shows the rainbow coloured display. The familiar FreeBSD boot
>> output does not appear. I've re-tried with 10.2-RELEASE and the same
>> problem occurs.
>>
>> I've made sure that the SD card and the Pi is functional - I resused
>> the SD card to boot up OSMC.
>>
>> Did I miss something obvious?
>>
>
> RPI2 isn't supported for 10.3.  You need 11.0.
>

Ah. Thanks for that. I didn't realise that as it wasn't obvious on the
10.3 Release page.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>