Thank you all, install successful on the UART headers indeed. For what it's worth, the bwfm driver seem to cause some odd issues such as the boot hanging or not getting the right driver for the tethering phone (I'm setting it up to replace another one in place) besides spamming the console with "bwfm_sdio_buf_write: error 60".
Well either that or it was a combination with booting the Pi with the phone and/or the wifi interface or USB acting up or... Anyway, I got a "clean" boot doing the following: - Unplugging phone - Dropping to a shell after the install, renaming hostname.urndis0 - echo 'disable bwfm' > /mnt/etc/bsd.re-config (effective the boot after next if I understood well) - shutdown, disconnect power At first boot, booting with boot -c to enter UKC, disable bwfm, quit. Then it's taken care of with bsd.re-config No hang, all working. Renaming back hostname.if and reconnecting the phone worked in tethering mode, as well as fw_update, syspatch, etc Hope that helps & thanks so much for all the work to support the Pi 5. Greetings, Thomas On Sun, 26 Oct 2025, at 00:03, Colin Tree wrote: > command line for the serial terminal in Linux > cu -l ttyUSB0 -s 1500000 > (not 115200) > in OpenBSD > cu -l cuaU0 -s 1500000 > > On 26/10/25 05:51, Thomas wrote: >> 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 >> > > > Attachments: > * OpenPGP_0xF53899CD00F8F5A4.asc > * OpenPGP_signature.asc
