Re: Orange Pi 5 Plus

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 20:26:29 +0200
Tobias Nygren <[email protected]> wrote:

> It should work in UEFI mode. Haven't tried recently but it did boot
> with -current around December last year.
> Do you have the UEFI firmware linked above flashed to the SPI chip
> according to their instructions and Debian installed from a stock
> netinst iso?

Not yet, but I think I know how to do that. It seems to be the first
key step.

> If so, just copy the EFI loader[1] onto Debian's ESP
> partition and add a boot entry for it in the firmware menu.

I think this is the key piece I'm missing. Does "Debian's ESP partition"
mean the EFI FAT filesystem equivalent to NetBSD's /boot?

> If you see
> a NetBSD boot splash screen when selecting it you can then dd the NetBSD
> aarch64 iso onto a USB stick and try loading /netbsd from that and
> you should be in the installer.

-- 
Ted Spradley <[email protected]>