Dear all, I have bought a RPI5 today and tried to install the 7.8 miniroot (and that of the latest snapshot) on it without success.
Well, it's just that I cannot get any text output. I have seen a thread in September on this mailing list that mentions the same issues and that the serial is on the debug headers. However the release notes of 7.8 say that the console is on the serial port. Does that mean the debug headers? I had initially understood it as the normal GPIO pins. I would like to double check this before I buy the necessary cable. I've been a very happy OpenBSD user on a RPI4B for the last 2 years and looking for a speed upgrade. I have the Raspberry OS running with the console on UART fine. Some details below in case it's a board that's too recent: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Revision Revision : e04171 vcgencmd bootloader_version 2025/06/13 10:39:26 version 5855b10b2bd22b2a116dc91f6b5b1bc4b2ea849f (release) timestamp 1749807566 update-time 0 capabilities 0x0000007f vcgencmd bootloader_config [all] BOOT_UART=1 BOOT_ORDER=0xf461 NET_INSTALL_AT_POWER_ON=1 vcgencmd version 2025/06/13 10:39:26 Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom version 5855b10b (release) (embedded) After the previous messages from this list, I tried to add these options to the default config.txt provided with the miniroot: dtoverlay=uart0-pi5 dtparam=uart0=on dtparam=uart0_console Many thanks in advance, Thomas
