Thursday, October 24, 2024

Re: OpenBSD nano r6s

Hi All,
I have progressed a little bit with the nano r6s. With the EFI EDK on an sd card
and the file "install76.img" copied on an USB disk the installation was possible.

To install it, I have to select DTB instead of ACPI in EFI Bios. The emmc card is
not recognised but an USB disk and the sd card are available.

To avoid the problem of the lack of serial console, one can type
at the boot prompt of the loader of OpenBSD the command "set tty fb0".

However, once the installation is done, after a reboot, the serial console is used again.
This could be avoided by typing the correct command at boot to switch to the frame buffer
console but then, after the begin of the boot correctly displayed on screen,
the following message (approximately retranscribed) is displayed
"can't open /dev/console, device not configured".

By letting the boot running in the serial console, a problem seems to arise since
the ssh port is never open (seen with the command "nmap -p 22 172.36.36.0/24").

Any ideas to solve this problem? Should one configure the console by
escaping to the shell before reboot? If this is the case, how to do that?

Thanks for your help,


On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 16:18:26 +0100
Mihai Dragan <mihai.dragan.pvt@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > Finally I have choosen an other path. I have installed the UEFI
> > found here:
> > https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588?tab=readme-ov-file
> >
> I got mine running some time ago by flashing the u-boot binary to an sdcard as described before.
> I fiddled a bit with it but didn't write down any notes. It did work in the end though.
>
> The baud rate on this image is the more mainstream 115200 instead of 1500000 as most Rockchips
> system prefer. The lack of an easily accessible serial console is frustrating, but you can wire the
> pins from the internal header to a 2.5 mm audio jack that can fit into the antenna hole in the case,
> see this example: https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/12/23/serial-console-nanopi-r6s/ (parts
> & pictures lower down in comments).
>
> Also note that on 7.5 at least the frequency is capped at 816Mhz (see
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=171529201101238&w=2). That will hopefully be fixed soon in 7.6.
>
> Good luck
>
> Mihai
>

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