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A comment on OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64. Parent comment

Re:OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64 by peanutbox on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:27PM (#31700807)
> You sure it's not booting kernel from eMMC, and the rest of the userland stored on NVMe?

I'm sure, since my RockPro64 has no eMMC (I didn't order one, and I just checked that my eMMC slot is empty).

I have Tow-Boot installed on my SPI, which when booted jumps to the NVMe device.

My initrd has modules "nvme pcie_rockchip_host phy_rockchip_pcie" which are needed for Linux to detect and then mount the rootfs.

  $ mount
  [...]
  /dev/nvme0n1p1 on / type ext4
  /dev/nvme0n1p3 on /boot/efi type vfat
  [...]
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Re:OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64 by daneel_w on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:48PM (#31700923)
That's great. Do you know where I can find instructions on how to flash Tow-Boot to the SPI and how to configure it?

Add.: never mind, I found that Tow-Boot has excellent documentation for the whole procedure. Thanks for the heads-up on Tow-Boot.

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Re:OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64 by peanutbox on Friday June 10, 2022 @11:21PM (#31701631)
Tow-Boot is great, and slowly being adopted by distributions (typically mobile distributions) as the way to do firmware/booting on aarch64.
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