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diff --git a/docs/bsd/grub_boot_installer.html b/docs/bsd/grub_boot_installer.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d3baa90d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/bsd/grub_boot_installer.html @@ -0,0 +1,219 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + + <style type="text/css"> + @import url('../css/main.css'); + </style> + + <title>How to install OpenBSD on a libreboot system</title> +</head> + +<body> + <div id="pagetop" class="section"> + <h1>How to install OpenBSD on a libreboot system</h1> + <p> + This section relates to preparing, booting and installing a + OpenBSD distribution on your libreboot system, using nothing more than a USB flash drive (and <i>dd</i>). They've only been tested on a Lenovo ThinkPad x200. + </p> + <ul> + <li><a href="#prepare">Prepare the USB drive (in OpenBSD)</a></li> + <li><a href="#noencryption">Installing OpenBSD without full disk encryption</a></li> + <li><a href="#encryption">Installing OpenBSD with full disk encryption</a></li> + <li><a href="#bootuing">Booting</a></li> + <li><a href="#configuring_grub">Configuring Grub</a></li> + <li><a href="#troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a></li> + </ul> + <p> + <a href="index.html">Back to previous index</a> + </p> + </div> + + <div class="section"> + <p> + <b>This section is only for the GRUB payload. For depthcharge (used on CrOS devices in libreboot), instructions + have yet to be written in the libreboot documentation.</b> + </p> + </div> + + <div id="prepare" class="section"> + + <h2>Prepare the USB drive (in OpenBSD)</h2> + + <p> + Connect the USB drive. Check dmesg:<br/> + <b>$ dmesg | tail</b><br/> + + Check to confirm which drive it is, for example, if you think its sd3:<br/> + <b>$ disklabel sd3</b> + </p> + + <p> + Check that it wasn't automatically mounted. If it was, unmount it. For example:<br/> + <b>$ doas umount /dev/sdXz</b><br/> + </p> + + <p> + dmesg told you what device it is. Overwrite the drive, writing your distro ISO to it with dd. For example:<br/> + <b>$ doas dd if=install60.iso of=/dev/rsdXz bs=1M; sync</b><br/> + </p> + + <p> + You should now be able to boot the installer from your USB drive. Continue reading, for + information about how to do that. + </p> + + <p> + <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. + </p> + + </div> + + <div id="noencryption" class="section"> + + <h2>Installing OpenBSD without full disk encryption</h2> + + <p> + Press C in GRUB to access the command line: + </p> + <p> + grub> <b>kopenbsd (usb0)/6.0/amd64/bsd.rd</b> + </p> + <p> + It will start booting into the OpenBSD installer. Follow the normal process for installing OpenBSD. + </p> + + <p> + <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. + </p> + + </div> + + <div id="encryption" class="section"> + + <h2>Installing OpenBSD with full disk encryption</h2> + + <p> + Not working. You can modify the above procedure (installation w/o encryption) to install OpenBSD using full disk encryption, and it appears to work, except that its not yet clear how to actually <i>boot</i> an OpenBSD+FDE installation using libreboot+Grub2. If you get it working, please let us know. + </p> + + <p> + <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. + </p> + + </div> + + <div id="booting" class="section"> + + <h2>Booting</h2> + + <p> + Press C in GRUB to access the command line: + </p> + <p> + grub> <b>kopenbsd -r sd0a (ahci0,openbsd1)/bsd</b> + </p> + <p> + OpenBSD will start booting. Yay! + </p> + + <p> + <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. + </p> + + </div> + + <div id="configuring_grub" class="section"> + + <h2>Configuring Grub</h2> + + <p> + If you don't want to drop to the GRUB command line and type in a command to boot OpenBSD every time, you can create a GRUB configuration that's aware of your OpenBSD installation and that will automatically be used by libreboot. The <a href="../gnulinux/grub_cbfs.html">instructions</a> are the same as for GNU/Linux. + </p> + <p> + In short, create a Grub2 config file that will add OpenBSD to the GRUB menu and set it as the default. Place your config at /grub/libreboot_grub.cfg. Reboot. Viola. + </p> + + <p> + <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. + </p> + + </div> + + <div id="troubleshooting" class="section"> + + <h1>Troubleshooting</h1> + + <p> + Most of these issues occur when using libreboot with coreboot's 'text mode' instead of the coreboot framebuffer. + This mode is useful for booting payloads like memtest86+ which expect text-mode, but for OpenBSD distributions + it can be problematic when they are trying to switch to a framebuffer because it doesn't exist. + </p> + + <p> + In most cases, you should use the vesafb ROM images. Example filename: libreboot_ukdvorak_vesafb.rom. + </p> + + <h2>won't boot...something about file not found</h2> + <p> + You device names (i.e. usb0, usb1, sd0, sd1, wd0, ahci0, hd0, etc) and numbers may differ. 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