RPi Rev.B - only one ROM working. Need BSD

[Kesano]

Hi there.
Buyed RPi from UK.
Rev B, 512Mb, Ethernet.
Works only one ROM - Raspbian.
Any other didn't want to work.. Tryed FreeBSD, Fedora, NetBSD builds...

Raspbian - boots good on 8Gb Class 10 SD and 4Gb class 4 microSD with adapter.
All LED works...
While trying to boot freeBSD, power LED in on, ACT LET blinks once and.... nothing happing...

Somebody have working FreeBSD distr???

Thanks a lot for your replies...

[tonyhughes]

Is it the Fedora ARM build for Raspberry Pi that you tried?

[Kesano]

Yes I am!
http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/
There i found all of Raspberry OS Builds...
Flashed them to SD card... Nothing happens... Then i flash Raspbian to the same SD - works fine, system boots, Ethernet, USB-ethernet works etc...

Maybe need to do something with stock config.txt?... I don't know ((
I'm very disappointed...

[Cloudcentric]

Personally have tried all these, except Fedora and the only one I like is piCore which is in Beta Testing:

piCore http://www.tinycorelinux.net/arm.html

Fedora Remix http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.p ... dora_Remix

Slitaz Linux http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/12/15/ ... pberry-pi/

Gentoo Linux http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

NetBSD http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3145

FreeBSD http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3094

OpenSuse http://zq1.de/~bernhard/linux/opensuse

Slackware 14.0 http://stanleygarvey.com/Slackberry/index.php

Slackware 13.37 http://slackware.spit-ct.ro/raspberrypi



http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 56&t=32080

[pluggy]

The freebsd on the link you posted works fine, just tested it, today.

freebsd-pi-r245446



http://www.pluggy.me.uk/raspberry/bsd-pi.jpg

Maybe a little more detail than "Nothing Happens" would be appropriate. We don't know what you're doing.

My monitor needs a clean.......

[jamesh]

The freebsd on the link you posted works fine, just tested it, today.

freebsd-pi-r245446



http://www.pluggy.me.uk/raspberry/bsd-pi.jpg

Maybe a little more detail than "Nothing Happens" would be appropriate. We don't know what you're doing.

My monitor needs a clean.......

Yes, indeed it does!

[Kesano]

Using simple TV as monitor via RCA.
When inserting SD card (today Class 4) and plug power cable, just Power LED working...
But no output on TV... Showing @No Signal@...
LAN didn't start blinking on waiting for 5 minutes...

[Spid]

If it works for only SD Card Image, then would say you have fubared either the SD Card, download or img copying...

http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

[Kesano]

Raspbian starts normal... FreeBSD - no...
MayBe SD card ISSUE??? need to try something else???

[pluggy]

I tried it with a DVI-D monitor, maybe they don't enable the composite video on other distros. I don't have a suitable cable to try it on my old telly.

[chadlongstaff]

try setting the bootable flag on the FAT partition, found with a slackware img this wasn't set and got similar symptoms

[Cloudcentric]

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html

[Kesano]

Downloaded some FreeBSD image for RPi...
boot partitions content was diffirent... New image not works... But boot works fine...

I copied files from right boot and put them to other image (just in file manager) - The miracle!!! It's up!!! )))
But no IPFW, no kernel etc...

Thanks for all...