> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:50:30 +0200 > From: Bernhard Ernst <[email protected]> > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 08:21:25 -0400 > "Brandon Mercer" <[email protected]> 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. > > > > Hopefully this helps. It does sound like you've done things correctly > > though. Brandon > > > > Thanks Brandon, very important hints!!! > According to this I cleaned up my workbench yesterday, took another Pi5 > (the third one), wrote a new miniroot78.img onto a totally new sd card > and brewed a big pot of coffee. > Then I started again, at first with an EDK firmware sd, because with > that the Pi always booted. > 1. Boot via EDK, select the image sd at usb,entered "set tty fb0" and > OBSD boots up into HDMI to the installation menu. There system hangs, > no keyboard, finito. > 2. The same without "set tty fb0", debug probe is connected to another > OBSD machine - and I got the boot output to the serial, as above up to > the installation menu. There the system hangs, no keyboard. > > So using EDK firmware seems to be not the best way. > > 3. Now the newly written image sd into the mmc slot, a new nvme ssd into > the HAT. No "set tty fb0" because now I knew that the serial works. Had > wonderfull output into the serial, system booted and I was able to do a > complete installation on the nvme ssd. > Unfortunately the system on the nvme did not boot but hangs with the > u-boot logo on the screen. > Finally I prepared a special installation on a 64GB sc card via a Pi4. > The installation was minimal with a big / and very small /usr/local and > /home. > This sd card booted perfectly and I now could create new partitions for > /usr/local and /home on the nvme ssd.
Yes, this is another limitation from the lack of PCIe and RP1 support in the current U-Boot. I am working on some patches to fix this, but I'm not sure those will land in the OpenBSD U-Boot port befor 7.8 is released. > So I now have a running system, till now without problems. Today I will > make some tests and will then build another Pi5 system, running as a > camera server with motion and mpv. > > Thanks to this wonderfull mailing list and the great help. Without this > assistance I probably had given up. > > Regards > Berni > > >
