On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 07:04:17AM +0000, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I got a Banana Pi R1 (the one with 5 RJ 45 slots). Physically it > looks like it has 1 RJ45 slot in one circuit and the 4 others in another. > > As a test I ran raspbian OS on it and it worked. For OpenBSD I got it to > get to to boot prompt and it loads the kernel but from then on it switches > to com0 which I don't have set up on this board. Is there any way to make > the HDMI vga work? > > As it boots blindly I suspect it either panics or the RJ45 devices are not > detected as I modified the bsd.rd kernel by placing a /auto_install.conf > file into the root ala autoinstall(8), and watched the network traffic > emanating from this computer. None afaict. > > I'M wondering if there is any hints I could try to see any activity from this > little device? I don't have another armv7 device so compiling is a nono, > however I can extract the ramdisk from bsd.rd and modify it and put it back > into bsd.rd. > > I could donate this BPI but I'd rather donate money. It cost around what > I usually donate every half year so it's only 3 months before I do a > paypal donation.
Buy a serial cable for the board. http://linux-sunxi.org/Lamobo_R1#Locating_the_UART http://linux-sunxi.org/UART#UART-USB_dongle -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
