On 2021-05-11, Paul W. Rankin <p...@bydasein.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install OpenBSD on a Raspberry Pi 4B without the > assistance of the serial console. The Pi firmware is set to boot from > USB. I have arm64 miniroot69 on a USB and the system boots; I see the > "BOOT>" prompt, but my USB keyboard does not appear to be recognised at > this point in boot, so I cannot interrupt and set tty to fb0. The boot > then proceeds to the serial console (i.e. blank screen). > > The thought occurred that it may be possible to change boot.conf in the > miniroot69 image to set tty to fb0 but so far my attempts have been > unsuccessful. I have tried... > > ...on my macOS system, I tried many variations of the following without > success: > > # qemu-system-aarch64 -machine raspi3 -hda /dev/disk2 > # qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -hda /dev/disk2 > # qemu-system-aarch64 -machine raspi3 -drive > file=miniroot69.img,format=raw > # qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -drive file=/dev/disk2,format=raw > > The qemu system just presents a blank screen. Nothing on serial or > parallel screens. > > ...on my OpenBSD server, I tried mounting the miniroot69.img and > altering boot.conf directly: > > # vnconfig vnd0 miniroot69.img > # mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt > > But this just presents: > > # ls -1 > bsd > bsd.rd > > Does anyone have any suggestion of how I might achieve editing boot.conf > on the miniroot69 image or otherwise how to boot the Raspberry Pi 4B > into fb0?
That would go on the booted disk, not inside the ramdisk kernel, so cd /mnt mkdir etc echo set tty fb0 > etc/boot.conf Pretty sure I tested that scenario and it worked without boot.conf though I'm not sure if it was with the pftf firmware or U-Boot.
