On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 08:08:35AM +0000, Bernhard Ernst wrote: > Hi folks, > is there any successful installation with OpenBSD on a Raspi 5? I tried
It's working fine for me. Did you try to install it from recent snapshot, correct? Support for this hardware was added just a few days ago. If so, you should be able to see the console and follow the installer via serial console. I have to use a debug probe [1] to get serial output and from a second OpenBSD computer just connect using cu, e.g.: cu -l cuaU0 -s 115200 I can report the following pain points: - I could not get serial output over GPIOs 14 and 15. I would prefer to access the console over those GPIOs instead of using the dedicated debug header but couldn't find reliable documentation on how to do that with the Raspberry Pi 5. If anyone knows, I would appreaciate a lot if you can share your config.txt or any instructions. - U-Boot seems to do not support yet booting or even recognizing USB sticks. That means you can install OpenBSD on a USB stick or disk, but you could not boot from it with U-Boot. Not sure if NVMe is supported as I don't have a NVMe HAT to test. I installed OpenBSD on a SD card through a USB SD card reader and then booted from that SD card without issues. It's running fine since then. EDK firmware didn't work for me, although it could boot from USB, then it tried to discover hardware using ACPI and the RAMDISK failed to boot. It doesn't look like "desktop" experience is supported yet on this hardware, so I'll stick to try to install using the serial console and use it as a headless system, at least for now. If it helps I can share my dmesg. Cheers, Miguel. 1. https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/debug-probe.html
