Re: Can't bootNetBSD 11 on RaspberryPi 4 from SDCARD - black screen (HDMI)

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 16 de octubre de 2026 1:55:29 CEST, Ted Spradley <tsprad%talent-free-studios.com@localhost> escribió:
>On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:00:36 -0700
>Steve Rikli <sr%genyosha.net@localhost> wrote:
>
>> If you unpack the UEFI bundle into the right place on your rpi sysdisk,
>> the HDMI monitor should start working on next reboot. As I understand
>> it, the firmware needs to actually load during a power-on & boot for it
>> to activate.
>[...]
>> > > I had problems with pftf UEFI versions 1.51 and 1.52, so I am using now version 1.50 and it is working just
>> > > fine with NetBSD 11.0 on the RPi4. Solid rock (ethernet network,  WIFI not tested).
>
>I did this again a couple weeks ago on a RPi400, using pftf UEFI
>version 1.53. The trick is, after you dd NetBSD onto your boot media
>you go to the /boot/ directory and delete everything that's not under
>the /boot/EFI/ subdirectory and then copy the pftf UEFI software into
>the /boot/ directory, just unzip it and cp -r * /mnt/ (assuming you
>have the msdos partition mounted on/mnt/).
>
>HDMI works fine for me.
>

Hi,

I just unzipped the UEFI firmware over the files on /boot, that should be the same, I think. I told unzip to overwrite the files. Am I missing something?

Regards.
Ramiro