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Written by Mr Cool on 2025-01-25 at 12:05

I wanted to try #FreeBSD 14.2 on the Raspberry Pi 4 but I actually entered a world of pain.

I don't like pre-installed images anyway. I would rather like to install it myself. When it comes to the ARM port the documentation doesn't seem to be really good. There might be a way, though.

I'm completely new to FreeBSD. I had just installed it for the very first time a couple of days ago in a VM. It really looks good so far.

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Written by Mr Cool on 2025-01-25 at 13:08

Putting the RPI image onto a USB stick, booting from it and installing the system to the sdcard with 'bsdinstall' works. Because this installation won't boot on the Raspberry, the files from the zip from here

https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases

have to be copied into the root of the EFI partition on the sdcard. The result is that the Raspberry boots #FreeBSD from the sdcard.

Unfortunately, the booting process is interrupted by an error message I don't understand. I'm done with this.

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Written by Mr Cool on 2025-01-25 at 13:09

This is where I got the idea from:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/installing-freebsd-on-raspberry-pi-4-b.87284/page-2

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Written by Mr Cool on 2025-01-25 at 13:19

I now will install #Slackware #Linux instead, even though I'm increasingly dissatisfied with Slackware's current release cycle of multiple years and more and more outdated packages.

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