Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:29:45 -0500 From: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stupid questions on installing Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOvf0Zn0g63Twz%2Bji-6fNS3QKmH-PJUOqv-7owoTU8YUSA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50F6E642.5070100@gmail.com> References: <CA%2BWntOu16qqdiZNrWrtdHCkx8s%2BDGw=n_PT7kKYGnibVv%2Bp8UA@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BWntOunumxMiBRs6RZcj4R1NJSN-rCB8fq1idnB0JR0oLVp%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <50F66C64.9090008@gmail.com> <CA%2BWntOuk%2ByVL3V5xadiw2q1RA091pfNEZ-VBDAjq5FG1aw7JKA@mail.gmail.com> <50F6E642.5070100@gmail.com>
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The output-device needs to be reset to screen. I tested 9.0-RELEASE both iso and memstick and they don't fully boot. Nathan, have you tested the images in qemu recently? They seem to be crapping out some. I also need someone with a powerboo or an ibook to tell me what the output-device is: is it output-device screen or output-device-1 screen? I wanted to use 9.0 being that I already have a small repository built for that release. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:41 PM, matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/16/2013 01:26, Super Bisquit wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:01 AM, matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 01/16/2013 00:05, Super Bisquit wrote: > > I'd like to know if anyone has used the memstick image to > install FreeBSD to a PowerpC32 machine and what was done to the usb > device with the dd command. > > Yes, G4 MDD FW400. Also boots OS9, NetBSD, OpenBSD this way. OS X might > work, didn't care to try. > > pv -ptre memstick.img | dd of=/dev/da0 obs=2M > > pv just for the progress bar because I hate dd's reticence. 2M because > it was fastest for that particular usb stick. Otherwise nothing fancy. > > I'll use the reference that you have here to run the dd command. > Still, did you need to format it to hfs or not? > > Booting with option sometimes worked. Sometimes claim failed or it would > spit out other nonsense (I thought adler was a german bird...) > Booting with /pci@f2000000/blah/disk@1:,\\:tbxi caused screen corruption > for a moment and sometimes worked > Booting with /pci@f2000000/blah/disk@1:,\ppc\boot1.elf worked every time > Where blah is usb@X[,Y] > > Since you can redirect OF to telnet, at least this stage can be easier > if you can blind type those commands and have a telnet client available > on another machine. > > Will I need to add the dhcp server to the second machine in order to > run the telnet interface? > > Naturally installing is quite slow over usb 1.1, with a random NEC based > USB2.0 card I was also able to install much faster. > > I know that debian has a ttyUSBX available but that doesn't seem to be > the issue with FreeBSD. > > No idea about serial console, I only have the weird internal modem > connector and I haven't figured out how to get a TTL console on it yet. > No pinout appears available, although the traces seem to indicate some > likely pins... > > Do you have something like a G4port on the Titanium? I assume G4 modem > header 5v/3.3v TTL maybe? > > I'm not sure. I'll see what the OF commands say when I run them at the > forth prompt. > > Matt > > > I may have gotten slightly confused between the couple messages. I thought a > hardware serial port was involved. > > As far as OpenFirmware via telnet: > http://www.fenestrated.net/~macman/mirrors/Apple%20Technotes%20(As%20of%202002)/tn/tn2004.html > > No DHCP server is necessary, but you'll have to type the commands mentioned > in the technote blind. > Once you're in, you can possibly set the boot-command to the correct telnet > command or put it in an nvramrc. > > Did we ever have an OF-only syscons for FreeBSD (probably early on)? I > wonder if it would also go over telnet... > > Personally I would do a DESTDIR= install over firewire in target disk mode > preferably in this situation, then chroot to it on the host and configure it > to get sshd running... > Once setup just reboot the titanium and ssh in. > This should be possible from any FreeBSD system with firewire since we can > cross-build world and kernel. > > As far as USB: > > I didn't format anything. I tested 9.1-RC3, I can test release tomorrow. I > just dd the image onto the stick, I may have zeroed the first couple > megabytes first to "clean" off any junk. > > My G4 will not always try to boot from USB, it has to be directed to do so > via the Option menu. It might try if there was no other bootable disk, can't > remember. > USB is *not* hotplug for Openfirmware, so put the stick in before you turn > on the machine. > > I did have a variety of errors trying to boot the stick directly at times, > especially with different releases and even other BSDs. The most reliable > way to boot it was to type the full path to the boot1.elf in OF. If it fails > you have to reboot to get OF clean again. > > Matt > >
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