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?
Much thanks,
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