Hello,
I recently installed FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. FreeBSD booted fine from a technical perspective, but took about five minutes to get to a login prompt. I reflashed the SD card with the RELEASE version, and the same thing happened. I noticed it hung up somewhere near recognizing and loading drivers for my USB Keyboard and Mouse, so I unplugged them and rebooted, and the boot time grew to 8 minutes. I rebooted with verbose flag and didn't notice any unusual errors, although I did see that GEOM_PART complained that partioned were not aligned with xxxxxxxx bytes appear both several messages before the hangup and then a few times during the hang up. I am not sure if it is relevant. Any ideas of other things I can check? This is bare bones stuff, I havent even connected it to internet yet so it should be as minimal as it can get. Besides enabling logs in the syslog.conf file and various other trivial usability items, I haven't affected anything from installation. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I like it so far but a 5 to 8 min boot is too long to be usable, especially headless...
I recently installed FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. FreeBSD booted fine from a technical perspective, but took about five minutes to get to a login prompt. I reflashed the SD card with the RELEASE version, and the same thing happened. I noticed it hung up somewhere near recognizing and loading drivers for my USB Keyboard and Mouse, so I unplugged them and rebooted, and the boot time grew to 8 minutes. I rebooted with verbose flag and didn't notice any unusual errors, although I did see that GEOM_PART complained that partioned were not aligned with xxxxxxxx bytes appear both several messages before the hangup and then a few times during the hang up. I am not sure if it is relevant. Any ideas of other things I can check? This is bare bones stuff, I havent even connected it to internet yet so it should be as minimal as it can get. Besides enabling logs in the syslog.conf file and various other trivial usability items, I haven't affected anything from installation. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I like it so far but a 5 to 8 min boot is too long to be usable, especially headless...