Hello,
thanks to those of you working on the arm64 port of OpenBSD, as well as working
on this great OS as a whole!I spend a couple of days now trying to get a FDE install of OpenBSD 6.8 working without
success. I tried different methods, hence, my knowledge about the boot process on
aarch64/arm64 architecture is limited, so it is for x86 I'm afraid. The "error" I receive is
that after a successful install, the boot process won't execute. An installation to an
unencrypted device won't jeopardize my efforts, which limits the error to some config
issue involving the FDE and not a BIOS misconfiguration. Starting with a bsd.rd boot, I'm following the FDE setup described in(https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDE). In my setup there is a couple
of devices involved: - sd0 8gb sd-card with raspberry-firmware v1.21 - sd1 16gb usb-stick to become the key-disk- sd2 16gb usb-stick with miniroot.img flashed onto
-sd3 250gb usb attached ssd Manual steps: # fdisk -iy -g -b 960 sd3 # disklabel -E sd3 -> creating the RAID partition on a with an offset of 64I read about the necessity of creating an EFI-Sys partition and realigning the OpenBSD
one here (https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/5487cb/full_disk_encryption_gpt/d80cwf1/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). Following this example I'll end up wit the following sd3 GPT-Table:
Disk: sd3 Usable LBA: 64 to 488397104 [488397168 Sectors] GUID: d0211d02-06fb-4f06-9821-727cbc5d534d #: type [ start: size ] guid name ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1: EFI Sys [ 64: 960 ] 7656e91c-21e5-49d6-803b-e683d212258b 3: OpenBSD [ 1024: 488396081 ] baad59dd-a515-4d7c-b1aa-b0b632253e78 OpenBSD Area # disklabel -E sd3 Label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt) sd3> a a offset: [1024] size: [488396081] * FS type: [4.2BSD] RAID sd3*> w sd3> q No label changes. # fdisk -iy sd1 Writing MBR at offset 0. # disklabel -E sd1 sd1> a a offset: [64] 1024 size: [30297566] 1m FS type: [4.2BSD] RAID sd1*> wI read about formatting the remaining space on the key-disk to FAT-322 the slides of
a presentation on the official OpenBSD page, but don't know if this is either relevant,
outdated or not applicable for arm64 infrastructure (https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2015-softraid-boot.pdf). sd1> a i offset: [16065] size: [30282525] * FS type: [4.2BSD] MSDOS sd1*> p OpenBSD area: 64-30298590; size: 30298526; free: 960 # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 15041 1024 RAID c: 30310400 0 unused i: 30282525 16065 MSDOS sd1*> w sd1> q No label changes. # newfs_msdos /dev/rsd1i # bioctl -c C -k sd1a -l sd3a softraid0 softraid0: CRYPTO volume attached as sd4 # cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV sd4 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd4c bs=1m count=1 I'm starting the installation process, providing answers manually. [...] Available disks are: sd0 sd1 sd2 sd3 sd4. Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) [sd0] sd4 Disk: sd4 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488395553 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *0: 0C 2 10 9 - 4 20 16 [ 32768: 32768 ] FAT32L 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 3: A6 4 20 17 - 30401 55 23 [ 65536: 488330017 ] OpenBSD Use (W)hole disk or (E)dit the MBR? [whole] Creating a msdos partition and an OpenBSD partition for rest of sd4...done. /dev/rsd4i: 32668 sectors in 8167 FAT16 clusters (2048 bytes/cluster)bps=512 spc=4 res=1 nft=2 rde=512 mid=0xf8 spf=32 spt=63 hds=255 hid=32768 bsec=32768
The auto-allocated layout for sd4 is: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 1024.0M 65536 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # / b: 4152.7M 2162688 swap c: 238474.4M 0 unused d: 4096.0M 10667488 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /tmp e: 11889.5M 19056064 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /var f: 6144.0M 43405664 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usrg: 1024.0M 55988576 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr/X11R6 h: 20480.0M 58085728 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr/local
i: 16.0M 32768 MSDOSj: 2048.0M 100028768 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr/src k: 6144.0M 104223072 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr/obj
l: 181440.2M 116806016 4.2BSD 4096 32768 1 # /home Use (A)uto layout, (E)dit auto layout, or create (C)ustom layout? [a] e Label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt) sd4> d a sd4*> d b sd4*> d d sd4*> d e sd4*> d f sd4*> d g sd4*> d h sd4*> d j sd4*> d k sd4*> d l sd4*> w sd4> p OpenBSD area: 65536-488395553; size: 488330017; free: 488330017 # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] c: 488395553 0 unused i: 32768 32768 MSDOS sd4> a a offset: [65536] size: [488330017] 10240m FS type: [4.2BSD] mount point: [none] / sd4*> w sd4> a d offset: [21045120] size: [467350433] 4096m FS type: [4.2BSD] mount point: [none] /tmp sd4*> w sd4> a e offset: [29447136] size: [458948417] 40960m FS type: [4.2BSD] mount point: [none] /var sd4*> w sd4> a f offset: [113338560] size: [375056993] 147456m FS type: [4.2BSD] mount point: [none] /usr sd4*> w sd4> a g offset: [415344448] size: [73051105] 16384m FS type: [4.2BSD] mount point: [none] /home sd4*> w sd4> p OpenBSD area: 65536-488395553; size: 488330017; free: 39491265 # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 20979584 65536 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # / c: 488395553 0 unused d: 8402016 21045120 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /tmp e: 83891424 29447136 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /var f: 302005888 113338560 4.2BSD 4096 32768 1 # /usr g: 33559840 415344448 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /home i: 32768 32768 MSDOS sd4> q No label changes. Which disk do you wish to initialize? (or 'done') [done] /dev/sd4a (5463406fee5a6848.a) on /mnt type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local)/dev/sd4g (5463406fee5a6848.g) on /mnt/home type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd4d (5463406fee5a6848.d) on /mnt/tmp type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd4f (5463406fee5a6848.f) on /mnt/usr type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local, nodev) /dev/sd4e (5463406fee5a6848.e) on /mnt/var type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local, nodev, nosuid)
[...]
What timezone are you in? ('?' for list) [Canada/Mountain] Europe/Berlin
Saving configuration files... done.
Making all device nodes... done.
Multiprocessor machine; using bsd.mp instead of bsd.
Relinking to create unique kernel... done.
CONGRATULATIONS! Your OpenBSD install has been successfully completed!
Exit to (S)hell, (H)alt or (R)eboot? [reboot] s
On my endeavor to find the missing part to the puzzle, I found a block
entry, saying
that after a successful install one should format the i partition with newfs_msdos,
mount it and the copy the bootaa64.efi file into a newly created /efi/boot directory
(https://jasper.la/posts/openbsd-uefi-bootloader-howto/). The blog entry from 2015
is not relevant anymore, as the file is already present.Once I'm restarting now, the Raspberry is skipping the boot order set in the bios
going over all four pxe-boot options, before telling me that no boot media was found.
Can anyone elaborate what I'm doing wrong and how a I can get a working FDE OpenBSD install with an Raspberry Pi 4 arm board? Thanks in advance!
