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+ <title>How to install OpenBSD on a libreboot system</title>
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+ <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/sd3i</b><br/>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ dmesg told you what device it is. Overwrite the drive, writing the OpenBSD installer to it with dd. For example:<br/>
+ <b>$ doas dd if=install60.fs of=/dev/rsdXc 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,openbsd1)/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.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ On your OpenBSD root partition, create the <b>/grub</b> directory and add the file <b>libreboot_grub.cfg</b> to it. Inside the <b>libreboot_grub.cfg</b> add these lines:
+ <p><b>
+ default=0
+ timeout=3
+ menuentry "OpenBSD" {<br>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;kopenbsd -r sd0a (ahci0,openbsd1)/bsd<br>
+ }<br>
+ </b></p>
+ <p>The next time you boot, you'll see the old Grub menu for a few seconds, then you'll see the a new menu with only OpenBSD on the list. After 3 seconds OpenBSD will boot, or you can hit enter to boot.
+ <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. Use TAB completion.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ </div>
+
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+
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+ Copyright &copy; 2014, 2015 Leah Rowe &lt;info@minifree.org&gt;<br/>
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