On 2025/09/24 08:21, Brandon Mercer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2025, at 6:03 AM, Bernhard Ernst wrote: > > Am Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:30:56 +0100 > > schrieb Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>: > > > >> On 2025/09/23 22:22, Bernhard Ernst wrote: > >> > Thanks for clarification, Mark. > >> > But even my installation via serial fails. > >> > >> Is that via a standard ttl serial adapter? I believe that at this > >> point, specifically the debug probe that Mark mentioned is required, > >> connected to the 3-pin header. AFAIK the GPIO pins as used on earlier > >> Pi machines will not work here. > >> > >> > Better I wait for the OBSD 7.8-stable. > >> > >> We are currently in the wind-down towards 7.8 so unless changed soon, > >> this will be how things look for 7.8. > >> > > > > Firstly I used a standard ttl serial adaptor (which was very very often > > used for installation of OBSD on RaspberryPi 4B and BananaPi M5). But 3 > > days ago I bought the debug probe, and had the same result: nothing > > comes over the serial. It makes me crazy to read here that some other > > guys successfully installed OBSD, but not me. > > Hello Bernhard, > I've recently built several headers to connect to my pi5's and I've ended up > with a few that did not work. I'm using a usb -> ttl with a cable with 3 > pins. I believe this is what you mean by debug probe. If you're not seeing > anything in the console there are a couple things to look at: console speed, > and the boot config to make sure the uart is enabled. Past that, you should > see uboot come up if the console is working. If you are getting past that > then we have different issues. Please test the continuity of the rx and tx > side independently because I've had 2 cables now that the rx works, but tx > has an open.
oh yes, for continuity you can just connect tx and rx together and make sure that you get things echoed back.. > Hopefully this helps. It does sound like you've done things correctly though. > Brandon >
