On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 10:38:57AM +0100, Mizsei Zoltn wrote: > Btw: i have tried to flash the OBSD install image as you did in your article
The method I described involved: * compiling U-Boot from source on an OpenBSD host machine. * modifying the miniroot installer image and boot code to include the packages for the base system on a separate MBR partition at the end. * writing the modified miniroot image to the eMMC of the device. * booting it and doing a regular installation of OpenBSD, overwriting the miniroot image during the install, and using an MBR partitioning scheme. What you are doing seems to be completely different. I did not use vendor supplied U-Boot binaries, nor did I do any of the preparation work or flashing of the eMMC from a Linux machine using special tools for a proprietary protocol, nor did I use a GPT partitioning scheme. All of these things make the process more complicated and error prone, as you have discovered. This board is not yet supported by the version of U-Boot in the OpenBSD ports tree. The first step towards making it work reliably and in a way that you have complete control over would be to compile the boot code from source on an OpenBSD host. Unless you are quite familar with OpenBSD on arm devices, this is probably not a good choice of project to be working on, and it would have been much easier to have purchased an SBC that is actually known to run OpenBSD already.
