November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM, "Bernhard Ernst" <[email protected] 
mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Bernhard%20Ernst%22%20%3Cbernhard.ernst%40gmx.de%3E
 > wrote:


> 
> Am Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:06:52 +0000
> schrieb "Nenhum_de_Nos" <[email protected]>:
> 
> > 
> > October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM, "Thomas" <[email protected]
> >  
> > mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Thomas%22%20%3Cexnihilo%40fastmail.org%3E
> >  wrote:
> >  
> >  
> >  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
> >  
> >  Hi Thomas,
> >  
> >  what firmware  are you using? I still use the old EDK2 on external
> >  USB drive. That way I cannot boot OpenBSD, HDMI works but it won't
> >  pass the root device: step.
> >  
> >  if the attached image worked, the boot is there.
> >  
> >  I tried  intall media on usb and sdcard, and treid booting an already
> >  installed system (over nvme and usb) all the same result.
> >  
> >  If you have any hints :)
> >  
> >  Thanks,
> >  
> >  matheus
> >  
> >  ------------
> >  "We will call you Cygnus,
> >  The God of balance you shall be."
> > 
> I got OBSD 7.8 BETA to run onto the Pi5 only using the following way:
> - wrote the miniroot78.img to the sd card
> - put a nvme ssd via HAT into the Pi (or an external usb ssd instead)
> - established a serial connection to another machine using the debug
>  uart, GPIO uart did not work for. Connection with cu -l cuaU0 -s
>  115200 worked fine.
> - Started the Pi und run into the installation mini menu on the screen
>  of the other machine.
> - Made an installation with / on the sd card and the other
>  partitions on the nvme.
> - When the installation was done I did not reboot but opnened a shell.
>  Changend to /mnt/etc and wrote a boot.conf with: echo "set tty fb0" >
>  boot.conf.
> - Rebooted the system, output now is into HDMI and I had a nice and
>  stable OBSD system.
> 
> I did this with the miniroot78.img BETA (because stable was not
> published). Meanwhile I upgraded the system to 7.8 stable without
> running into problems.
> 
> Regards
> Berni
> 
Few moments after hitting send I remembered to ask this: does it need to have / 
on the sdcard? Can OpenBSD run straight from nvme or usb storage?

Thanks again,

matheus

------------
"We will call you Cygnus,
The God of balance you shall be."

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