4 Replies Latest reply on Apr 1, 2015 7:58 AM by williammimart

Non-Linux operating systems on BeagleBone Black?

rocket357 Aug 2, 2014 9:31 PM

I'm a long-time http://www.openbsd.org/ fan, and for a long time OpenBSD has poor support for ARM boards. This changed a few years ago when the OpenBSD team coded support for the Beagle{board,bone}, Panda, and other armv7 variants. I grabbed a beaglebone black, threw OpenBSD on it, and I've been happily using it (in spite of some device support not being there yet) as a mini-server on my home network.

Now that I'm starting to get more involved in the hardware side, I was curious if there were many non-Linux operating systems that are being used by element14 members?

Re: Non-Linux operating systems on BeagleBone Black?

williammimart Mar 16, 2015 10:21 AM (in response to rocket357)

I just buy one today.
I quickly tell you what I could do.
I am a former fan of OpenBSD on Soekris (firewall and web proxy).
See you soon.
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Re: Non-Linux operating systems on BeagleBone Black?

williammimart Mar 27, 2015 12:37 PM (in response to rocket357)

I've done it !
I grabbed a serial USB TTL 3V3 cable and I've been able to install an OpenBSD snapshot in a mSSD.
I havent got any microHDMI cable yet but the next step will be to startX to give it a try.
Cheers.
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  rocket357 Mar 31, 2015 4:56 PM (in response to williammimart)
  
  I don't suspect that startx will work for you, as the hdmi chip lacks proper support currently on OpenBSD.
  
  Good to see another BSD'er around, though =)
  
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    williammimart Apr 1, 2015 7:58 AM (in response to rocket357)
    
    I confirm that I haven't got any HDMI graphics either with OpenBSD nor with Bitrig (a recent fork of OpenBSD).
    I'm trying to restore the Debian distribution on the eMMC but I don't know if do it the right way....
    
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