Has anyone installed FreeBSD in UdooBOLT ?

Has anyone installed FreeBSD in UdooBOLT ? I only managed to install FreeBSD on UdooX86

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Qualcuno ha installato FreeBSD in UdooBOLT ? Io sono riuscito ad installare FreeBSD solo in UdooX86

 

I was thinking I would install FreeNAS (which is FreeBSD based). I will let you know if I get it working or not.

 

Dearest jorgy,
thank you very much.

 

I created a FreeBSD 12.1 bootable USB stick and booted from it successfully, and started a live CD on my UDOO Bolt. It ran just fine, so I have every reason to believe that installing it would be fine too.

 

Dearest jorgy,
I also created a usb stick with FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img and also with FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso but unfortunately the boot stopped and the computer went into freeze.
Thanks for yor reply

 

Interesting, I was successful with FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso.

 

Usually the culprit is the boot-time eMMC support (assuming OS is installed there as the system drive.)
Find a patch would be the workaround, if that is the issue and if such patch exists.

 

Dearest jorgy,
Really I was unable to complete the boot even with the SATA disk. However, I will try again as soon as I have free time.
Best regards

 

Dearest ccs_hello,
If you were able to install FreeBSD in the EMMC I would be happy because now I have installed Manjaro in the M2 Nvme, Debian in the M2 Transcend and Ubuntu in the SATA then only the EMMC remains free where I currently have a second Ubuntu installation.
Thank you very much

 

For installation on the eMMC on the Bolt you need a patch or a Linux version that already uses a kernel >= 5.2.5
See also the documentation https://www.udoo.org/docs-bolt/Operating_Systems/Linux/Known_issues.html

I do not know what kernel verion FreeBSD uses.

 

Stupid me, FreeBSD uses its own kernel so you will have to check if the AMD eMMC driver is implemented.