FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and 11.2-RELEASE images fail to boot on BeagleBone Black

[Dennis Clarke]

On 7/13/19 1:39 PM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-07-14 at 01:01 +0900, Denis Polygalov wrote:
>> Hi Sergey,
>>
>> I tried this on 11.2-RELEASE:
>>
>> mountroot> ufs:/dev/mmcsd1s2
>>
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mmcsd1s2 []...
>> mountroot: waiting for device /dev/mmcsd1s2...
>> Mounting from ufs:/dev/mmcsd1s2 failed with error 19.
>>
>> mountroot>
>>
>> unfortunately even 12.0-RELEASE doesn't work:
>>
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/rootfs [rw]...
>> mountroot: waiting for device /dev/ufs/rootfs...
>> Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufs/rootfs failed with error 19.
>>
>> Loader variables:
>>     vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ufs/rootfs
>>     vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
>>
>> Manual root filesystem specification:
>>     <fstype>:<device> [options]
>>         Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>>         and with the specified (optional) option list.
>>
>>       eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
>>           zfs:zroot/ROOT/default
>>           cd9660:/dev/cd0 ro
>>             (which is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/cd0 /)
>>
>>     ?               List valid disk boot devices
>>     .               Yield 1 second (for background tasks)
>>     <empty line>    Abort manual input
>>
>> mountroot> ?
>>
>> List of GEOM managed disk devices:
>>     diskid/DISK-5C3DD42Es2 diskid/DISK-5C3DD42Es1 ext2fs/Angstrom
>> msdosfs/BEAGLEBONE diskid/DISK-5C3DD42E mmcsd0s2 mmcsd0s1
>> mmcsd0boot1
>> mmcsd0boot0 mmcsd0
>>
>> mountroot> ufs:/dev/mmcsd1s2
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mmcsd1s2 []...
>> mountroot: waiting for device /dev/mmcsd1s2...
>> Mounting from ufs:/dev/mmcsd1s2 failed with error 19.
>>
>> mountroot>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Denis.
>>
> 
> I'm able to boot the most recent 12-stable snapshot on beaglebone
> black...
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv7/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-STABLE-arm-armv7-BEAGLEBONE-20190711-r349903.img.xz
> 
> But there are some long timeout delays on ti_sdhci1 as it boots.
> 

I am curious if anyone has ever tried out the ASUS Tinkerboard ?

Even bigger question, is there a way to boot a USB attached CD/DVD drive 
or thumbdrive on such a beast?



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