Some days ago I made a new installation with OpenBSD 7.8 on a RapberryPi 5 with 16GB of RAM and and 512 GB nvme disk. Installation went well via the serial. Bootdisk is a 64GB sd card, carrying the root file system, while /usr and /home is on the nvme.
So far, so good. After the complete installaion I set up the system again via the serial. During setting up I rebooted the system 2 or 3 time without any problem. Finally I created the /etc/boot.conf file with "set tty fb0". Then I disconnected the Raspberry from its serial partner system and removed the serial adapter. From now on my OpenBSD system did no longer boot! The system started, the u-boot logo appeared top right og´f the screen - and that's it. OpenBSD was not started. But as soon I estabblished an serial connection to a second machine, the systems booted completely up into the OpenBSD system. Removing the serial connection again or turning of the second machine or simply left cu, again the u-boot started, but not OpenBSD. This behaviour is 100% reproducable! I start the Raspi without serial connection and all ends up with the u-boot logo. Establishing a serial connection lets immedietaly start OpenBSD with the u-boot. What can be wrong with my 7.8 system? My first installation with 7.8-current definetls starts without active serial connection. Sound crazy for me! Berni
