Re: OpenBSD-7.1beta aarch64 on RPI4 black screen after "Booting sd0a:"

On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:34:53 +0000
Martin <martingot@protonmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Copied 7.1beta latest snapshot to 256Gb MicroSD card and trying to
> boot RPI4. No external USB disks attached except MicroSD.
>
> There is no any text after "Booting sd0a: ...", but monitor stays in
> normal power mode, just no video output with text kernel messages.
>
> I'm not sure is it normal or not, because I try to run OpenBSD first
> time on latest RPI.
>
> Does it intended behavior? Please advice.
>
> Martin
>

The Raspberry doesn't boot to a tty by default, it boots into the
serial console. So before booting you should get a screen for input.
There input these two commands:

set tty fb0
boot

After that you should see output on your monitor.
For more information refer to the INSTALL.arm64 file distributed with
the version you are using.
Here is where the one for 7.0 is located, I think it should be similar
enough to the 7.1 beta:
https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/arm64/

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Kacper Wilgus <kacperwilgus@disroot.org>