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werdahias (tired) werdahias
I would appreciate some pointers for installing #NetBSD on my #Rock64 arm SBC. I tried various combinations of concatenated images, and nothing seems to boot, let alone show video output for the HDMI port. And yes, I read the wiki. #boosts welcome.
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NetBSD Foundation ðŸšĐ netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org

@werdahias Did you try the pre-concatenated image? https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/NetBSD-11.0-release/NetBSD-11-aarch64--rock64.img.gz

werdahias (tired) werdahias
@netbsd yes, I did. But that gets me video output, and doesn't seem to show any activity. Is eMMC boot supported?

NetBSD Foundation ðŸšĐ netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org

@werdahias maybe it's outputting to the breakfast^W serial console? you can use the creds_msdos system to make the board automatically start a ssh server for login on first boot.

ð™đ𝚘𝚎𝚕 ð™ē𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ïļðŸĪŠ joel@tumfatig.net

@werdahias not this exact board but here are my notes for the RockPro64. Maybe you can find tricks or ideas there.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/bsd-discovery-on-the-pine64-rockpro64/#netbsd

werdahias (tired) werdahias
@joel thanks, I figured it out in the meantime.

scrottie (he/him/them) scrottie@bsd.network

@werdahias I've mucked with ARM a fair bit, and RISC-V (similar situation), under OpenBSD. It's tricky, and the OpenBSD docs at least are far from adequate. I suggest posting everything you did, in detail... screenshots, etc. Again, I'm not exactly familiar with those, but if there isn't a video driver, you may only have serial console. And if there's a problem, serial console is where you'd see it. I personally never would have managed to bootstrap OpenBSD on ARM/RISC-V without that.