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Is it still necessary to do the serial console procedure to install it on the RaspberryPi? If that's the case does anyone know why I can do a simple `dd` with a FreeBSD image to the SD card and boot the RaspberryPi but not with an OpenBSD image? I tried once OpenBSD in my laptop and was extremely happy with with it. Then for some reason that I can't remember I switched to FreeBSD which also makes me very happy.


> Is it still necessary to do the serial console procedure to install it on the RaspberryPi?

No, you can switch to a glass console by typing 'set tty fb0' at the 'boot>' prompt.

https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/arm64/INSTALL.arm64


I couldn't connect to the pi using the serial console. Linux detects it and it gets logged in dmesg but the telnet doesn't seem to work.

It could be that I have a faulty cable.

Oh it's on an rpi3 . Maybe the serial connection only works on 4? The documentation doesn't say.


Er, serial and telnet are very different things; what exactly are you doing?


Oh sorry I meant `screen`

Basically these instructions:

https://dev.to/spacial/installing-openbsd-7-on-raspberry-pi-...

But...

This was a while ago. It looks like the instructions for OpenBSD have changed?

https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html

Maybe I'll try again soon...


Try Minicom.




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