Dear all,
Happy Easter! As a long-time Linux user, I've grown towards openbsd over
the past year, first with servers, and later for routers and desktops as
well. I've had some sysadmin experience on a vps and I've run a few
virtual machines both as a desktop and a server. I tried installing the
os a few times on a thinkpad and a raspberry pi both with little
success. My most recent attempt, this past week, with the raspberry pi
yielded the following results:
sudo dd if=miniroot78.img of=/dev/disk4 status=progress
The miniroot failed to configure an internet connection over ethernet
during the install in order to fetch the filesets, and I was having some
trouble installing them from a usb drive, though I may try again.
Perhaps it was a bad cable.
I verified the checksum of install78.img, and flashed it to the sd card
(sudo dd if=install78.img of=/dev/rdisk4 bs=1m). It gets to the "boot> "
prompt, but no further. It seems like a filesystem error. Should I
format the card and dd the image to a partition?
I realize this may be a simple issue, but I'm currently at my wit's end.
If it makes any diference, the microsd card is a cheap 64gb one from
walmart, and I'm connected to the pi through a usb-ttl serial console
using the command recommended by INSTALL.arm64. I didn't get a
dmesg output from the miniroot.img environment, though I can
boot into it within the next day or two to get that if it would
help.
Here's the output from my serial connection:
Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to read "uboot.env" from mmc0:1...
In: serial,usbkbd
Out: serial,vidconsole
Err: serial,vidconsole
Net: eth0: ethernet@7d580000
PCIe BRCM: link up, 5.0 Gbps x1 (SSC)
starting USB...
Register 5000420 NbrPorts 5
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.00
Bus xhci_pci: 3 USB Device(s) found
scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110
Cannot persist EFI variables without system partition
** Booting bootflow '<NULL>' with efi_mgr
Booting: Label: mmc 0 Device path:
/VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b,0000000000000000
/VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-a0000000000
/VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b,6d00000005000000)
/SD(0)
/SD(1)
disks: sd0* sd1
>> OpenBSD/arm64 BOOTAA64 1.22
boot>
cannot open sd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory
booting sd0a:/bsd: sd0a:/bsd: Inappropriate file type or format
failed(79). will try /bsd
boot>
cannot open sd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory
booting sd0a:/bsd: sd0a:/bsd: Inappropriate file type or format
failed(79). will try /bsd
Turning timeout off.
boot> boot sd0:/bsd.rd
cannot open sd0:/etc/random.seed: bad partition
booting sd0:/bsd.rd: open sd0:/bsd.rd: bad partition
failed(99). will try /bsd
boot>
p.s. everything from "Booting: Label" until "disks" is one line.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
William Long
