Could not wait and made my tests right now. Result: Negative!!! I downloaded the latest miniroot78 image from yesterday and wrote it onto 3 different devices: sd card, usb-stick and nvme ssd.
However the result was always the same: the raspi started up and ended up by displaying the little u-boot image top-right on the screen. Nevertheless I established a serial connection to an amd64 machine running also OpenBSD (7.7). Before I have doublechecked that the debug uart of the raspi was activated - it was. But there was nothing what comes over the serial connection - absolutely nothing. I don't have a debug probe but 2 special serial cables for the Pi 5. I tested both cables, and, believe it or not, I tested on 2 different raspi 5. No chance at all. Maybe I made a big fat mistake, but I don't no wahts going wrong. For toady I will give it up. Regards Berni Am Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:13:30 +0000 schrieb Miguel Landaeta <[email protected]>: > 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 >
