I asked Hetzner to import install73.img and mounted it as VM CD-ROM, but it doesn't boot. I'm not sure if this is a bug either.
Cheers, Chris Narkiewic On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 16:16 +0000, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: > 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 > > > -- +44 7502 415 180 (Phone, Signal, WhatsApp) @ezaquarii:etacassiopeiae.net (Matrix)
