Am 09.11.2012 05:44, schrieb Tim Kientzle: >> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Tim Kientzle <[email protected]> wrote: >> WARNING: This is still highly experimental and by no >> means ready for "production use", ... >> >> To boot FreeBSD on your RaspberryPi, you'll need: >> 1) A RaspberryPi. >> 2) A serial cable similar to this one: www.adafruit.com/products/954 > > > On Nov 8, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Sami Halabi wrote: >> >> why the console cable is needed ? >> > As far as I can tell, the code in FreeBSD-CURRENT > does not yet support the video out. So you need > a serial console cable to interact with it.
All it takes to get the framebuffer working is that the hash chars are removed. I.e. the following works: device sc device kbdmux options SC_DFLT_FONT # compile font in makeoptions SC_DFLT_FONT=cp437 > You might be able to interact via SSH but > that requires a little bit more setup (a root > password needs to be set and you need to > edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to allow root logins). I used SSH, and the framebuffer helps to see how far the boot process has come. It takes about 60 seconds to generate the SSH host keys, for example. [The following points are not specific to the R-PI, and I'm sure you know them, but I list them for others that may want to use their R-PI without serial console.] In order to use SSH I modified sshd_config to accept direct root logins. The root password must be set (best method: "vipw -d /mnt/etc", else you must remember to invoke "pwd_mkdb -d /mnt/etc" when you are done). The host name and IP address should be set in rc.conf (or assigned via DHCP). If you do not want to enable direct root login, then a non-privileged account in group wheel is required to be able to "su" to root. That's all I remember ... I used the build script from "http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164"; with one slight modification (tar -x ... --no-same-owner ...). My R-PI kernel contains MSDOSFS and NFS client support to allow it to mount its boot partition and NFS exported /usr/src, /usr/obj, /usr/ports and /usr/work (where I build ports). Most of them are R/O mounts. I have not tried to build world on the R-PI (cross building is so much faster ...). But ports can be build, if a swap partition is available (e.g. on SD card or via NFS - I did not try to mount a USB stick, but that might be another option). Regards, STefan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
