NetBSD on the Orange Pi

January 21, 2023

NetBSD on the Orange Pi - NetBSD 9.3 for the Orange Pi 2

Not "PC 2" mind you, but just "2". The "PC 2" is the H5 based (and now seldom seen) arm64 board (and I have a couple of them). Whatever the "2" is, the NetBSD for it runs just fine on my "PC plus". Don't get me started about the names Orange Pi picks for their products.

armbsd.org

I download NetBSD-9-earmv7hf--orangepi-2.img.gz using the "Orange Pi 2" link above. This is a 321M image. It unzips to 1221328896 bytes, which is suspiciously exactly the same size as "armv7.img" that I got previously for the Orange Pi PC.
The following command puts it on the SD card:

dd if=netbsd.img of=/dev/sdg bs=16M conv=sync

I try booting it on my Orange Pi PC plus and it boots! This is clearly not arm64 for the H5.

It seems to run and keep on running. It announces itself as:

NetBSD 9.3 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Aug  4 15:30:37 UTC 2022

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