On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 13:34 +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:21:14PM +0200, Unicorn wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I own an Allwinner A20 based OLinuXino LIME2, a little OSHW board > > by > > Olimex. I saw that there is support for some A20 devices, > > unfortunately > > not the OLinuXino LIME2. Since I am new to both BSD and ARM, I do > > not > > know where to start with getting OpenBSD to run on my board. > > > > Does anyone here have experience with this board in particular or > > advice on where to start with getting it to run? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > System firmware unfortunately does not ship with such systems and has > to > share the storage device with the operating system. > > Assuming you have another OpenBSD install or something that can > extract > the package see > > "Install on systems without a supported miniroot" from > https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/armv7/INSTALL.armv7 > > Install the u-boot-arm package and run > > dd if=miniroot-cubie-66.fs of=/dev/rsdXc > dd if=/usr/local/share/u-boot/A20-OLinuXino-Lime2/u-boot-sunxi-with- > spl.bin \ > of=/dev/sdXc bs=1024 seek=8 > > where sdX is the device the sd card shows up as. > > alternatively there is also a 'A20-OLinuXino-Lime2-eMMC' target > built.
Thanks a lot for the pointer, I will try with these instructions later with an OpenBSD VM when I have the time! > alternatively there is also a 'A20-OLinuXino-Lime2-eMMC' target > built. What do you mean by this? Would this be for installation on the eMMC chip on the LIME2?
