dnl $OpenBSD: prep,v 1.20 2024/08/14 10:50:20 jsg Exp $ To perform an installation you must be able to interact with the console of the machine. In some cases this can be done by an attached monitor and keyboard. In others a serial console is required. USB OTG ports such as the one found on the BeagleBone will not function as a console. You need to be able to interact with the firmware on the console. Often this requires a 3.3V TTL level adapter connected to pins or a header on the board. Firmware which provides an UEFI interface with a Device Tree Blob (DTB) file or ACPI support is required to boot. In most cases this is provided by images of U-Boot 2016.07 or newer on SD/MMC devices or in SPI flash. If the miniroot or install images are used, U-Boot and DTB files are distributed as part of the images. OpenBSD can be installed onto a disk by copying the miniroot or install image for your board ("miniroot{:--:}OSrev.img" or "install{:--:}OSrev.img") to an SD card. Booting from an SD card: To use a miniroot/install image you will need another machine to plug the SD card in to. Any machine type will do, as long as it supports SD card storage devices. Under OpenBSD, it will appear as a ``sd'' device, for example sd1. Use the dd(1) utility to copy the image to the SD card. The command would likely be, under OpenBSD: dd if=miniroot{:--:}OSrev.img of=/dev/rsd1c bs=1m When you have connected the serial to your computer, a command such as "cu -l cuaU0 -s 115200" (assuming cuaU0 is your serial port device) should connect you to the board's console. Running EFI payloads with U-Boot: If the U-Boot target supports "distro_bootcmd" efiboot will automatically be loaded by placing bootaa64.efi into /efi/boot/bootaa64.efi on a FAT filesystem. With dtb files placed in /vendor/, /dtbs/vendor/, or /dtb/current/vendor/. If the U-Boot target supports bootefi but not automatically finding it with "distro_bootcmd" then it must be loaded manually or by U-Boot commands or script. => run findfdt => load mmc 0:1 ${fdt_addr_r} ${fdtfile} => load mmc 0:1 ${kernel_addr_r} efi/boot/bootaa64.efi => bootefi ${kernel_addr_r} ${fdt_addr_r} The bootloader will then run and try to load sd0a:/bsd off an FFS filesystem after a timeout. Install on Apple Silicon: These machines do not come with UEFI firmware by default. In order to install OpenBSD on these machine you need to run the Asahi Linux installer first in macOS or the macOS recovery environment. Instructions on how to download and run the Asahi Linux installer can be found at https://asahilinux.org/. Run it in macOS or the macOS recovery environment. Note that while running the suggested: curl https://alx.sh | sh is probably safe, it is teaching a bad habit. It is better to download the installer: curl -o alx.sh https://alx.sh and inspect the alx.sh script before running it: sh alx.sh You will have to create some free space for your OpenBSD install by choosing the "Resize an existing partition to make space for a new OS" option first. Once that is done, pick the "Install an OS into free space" option, choose "UEFI environment only (m1n1 + U-Boot + ESP)" and follow the steps presented to you. Now you can copy the miniroot or install image ("miniroot{:--:}OSrev.img" or "install{:--:}OSrev.img") to a USB drive, plug it into one of the ports on the machine and reset the machine to boot into the OpenBSD installer. Install on Raspberry Pi: The standard miniroot supports at least the Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 with no additional firmware. Some devices may not be functional with Pi 3+. It is recommended that you install to a USB storage device. The default system console is on the TTL serial interface on the TXD/RXD/GND pins of the https://pinout.xyz/ header on the board. It will be helpful to obtain an adapter (e.g. CP2102 USB-UART). If you have one, attach it to the pins and a computer; a command such as "cu -l cuaU0 -s 115200" (assuming cuaU0 is your serial port device) should connect you to the board's console. If not, note that once the kernel has started running, by default you will only see output on the serial console. To switch to displaying on the monitor instead, watch for the OpenBSD BOOTAA64 "boot>" prompt, and type "set tty fb0". 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. Install on systems without a supported miniroot: If a miniroot is not available for your system you will have to modify an existing image before booting it. To do so first install the u-boot-aarch64 and dtb packages. Write the provided miniroot image to an SD card: dd if=miniroot{:--:}OSrev.img of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1m Add a board specific DTB file (Allwinner and Rockchip U-Boot images come with a default DTB): mount /dev/sdXi /mnt mkdir /mnt/vendor cp /usr/local/share/dtb/arm64/vendor/board.dtb /mnt/vendor/ umount /mnt For systems based on Allwinner Axx SoCs: dd if=/usr/local/share/u-boot/board/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin \ of=/dev/sdXc bs=1024 seek=8 For systems based on Rockchip RK33xx SoCs: dd if=/usr/local/share/u-boot/board/idbloader.img \ of=/dev/sdXc seek=64 dd if=/usr/local/share/u-boot/board/u-boot.itb \ of=/dev/sdXc seek=16384 For systems based on Rockchip RK356x SoCs: dd if=/usr/local/share/u-boot/board/u-boot-rockchip.bin \ of=/dev/sdXc seek=64