Hi, I'm not sure does this belong to bugs@
However what I used in the past was Yaifo and I still use it every few years, but it takes too much effort to rebase it to -current, so I didn't touch it for few years now, but for me it worked really nicely. https://github.com/jedisct1/yaifo On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 09:00:23AM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday hetzner.com came out with arm64 cloud instances, I tried one out. > Here is what I found. The images they give you a choice of does not include > OpenBSD, so I had to get a ubuntu OS. That's fine the EFI partition was > already mounted. Through trialing this I found the best way of getting the > OpenBSD loader to boot was the following way: > > 1. place miniroot73.img on the EFI partition root (/boot/efi/) > 2. reboot > 3. press escape to get to the BIOS, there is 3 options one is a configuration > option under 1, enter it. I'm working off memory here I didn't save > anything so take it with a grain of salt on exactness. In this option is > an option to create a RAM drive from a file, go there and enter the > miniroot73.img (45MB). The down arrows didn't work in this BIOS so it was > great that it wrapped around going up. > 4. next go back into the main bios screen by pressing escape. There is option > 3 for boot options, enter it. There is a boot from file option enter it. > Select the RAM drive and manouver your way to the bootaa64.efi file. Press > enter. > 5. OpenBSD loader now loads. ls displays bsd and bsd.rd, the console is on > comcons0 or something like that. Switching to fb0 works too. Then when > pressing boot a blank screen happens. Waiting a while no prompts and I > didn't try to blind type anything. Doing this again with fb0 doesn't > work either. > 6. Full stop, I didn't get further. > > I then deleted my instance as ubuntu is not good enough for me. I guess we'll > have to wait until the pros get to it. Thanks! > > Best Regards, > -peter > -- Regards, Mikolaj
