My work gave me a gift voucher and I decided to use it to purchase a Raspberry Pi Model 4B 4GB because it was less depressing than purchasing the lamp I desperately need in my bedroom. Furniture is overrated.
I have downloaded the RPI-B armv6/armv7 .img archive file off of the FreeBSD.org/where getting spot, and did a
Slammed the microSD into the Pi 4 and I get four slow flashes of the green light and then four quick flashes, and no apparent booting.
I then tried writing the microSD again but using the Raspberry Pi Imager, and specifying the .img for it to write. Same issue.
However, if I use the Pi Imager to install Ubuntu 23.10 64-bit onto the card, and stick the card into the Pi, it boots up fine.
dd'ing the .img file seems weird to me as I feel that it would just set the size of the partition to the size of the image and not be writable, so maybe the Imager is weaving some magic with the Ubuntu image that I need to do manually to the FreeBSD one? I haven't seen any steps that I need to perform though.
Help me understand!
Thanks
I have downloaded the RPI-B armv6/armv7 .img archive file off of the FreeBSD.org/where getting spot, and did a
dd
of the img straight onto a microSD as per instructions online.Slammed the microSD into the Pi 4 and I get four slow flashes of the green light and then four quick flashes, and no apparent booting.
I then tried writing the microSD again but using the Raspberry Pi Imager, and specifying the .img for it to write. Same issue.
However, if I use the Pi Imager to install Ubuntu 23.10 64-bit onto the card, and stick the card into the Pi, it boots up fine.
dd'ing the .img file seems weird to me as I feel that it would just set the size of the partition to the size of the image and not be writable, so maybe the Imager is weaving some magic with the Ubuntu image that I need to do manually to the FreeBSD one? I haven't seen any steps that I need to perform though.
Help me understand!
Thanks