On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 06:14:22PM +0000, wordthinker wrote:
On Saturday, April 11th, 2026 at 11:24 AM, Ampie Niemand <[email protected]>
wrote:
Have you tried this advice from the INSTALL.arm64 instructions:
"Alternatively the system can be booted using UEFI firmware found at
https://github.com/pftf/RPi4. Follow their instructions to install to
an
SD card and run the OpenBSD installer from USB. v1.21 is known to
work;
some newer versions may have problems."
Ampie,
I tried using the UEFI firmware, both the most recent version and the v1.21,
both to a similar effect. Attached are the script files for each attempt. It
seems that the ethernet over bse0 is still not working (neither dig nor pinging
9.9.9.9 succeeds), and on v1.21 it seems to hang on disk formatting, which was
not happening when I booted the miniroot directly from the sd card. Version
1.51 gives the error:
IPv4 address for bse0? (or 'autoconf' or 'none') [autoconf]
No dhcp address on interface bse0 in 30 seconds.
While version 1.21 fails silently. Is there something else obvious I'm missing?
Thanks,
William Long
Maybe you can try following this guide, Mileage may vary:
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1jt5tqi/installing_openbsd_76_on_raspberry_4b_rpi4_guide/
## note especially ###
Interestingly:
'Need to have at least 2 USB flash sticks & 1 MicroSD to proceed.'
'The bse0 network interface for me never connected during the
installation, so no network connection was available, but that's ok.
The root disk should be the blank MicroSD (typically sd0). Fw_update may
fail, but that's ok.'
I also noted in your dmesg output that the mac-address was blank, and
that could mean that your bse driver has a firmware update after the
initial install process.
Hope you get to solve it, good luck.
Regards
