Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:52:17 -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%2BWntOuZQu_ohB%2BG%2Bu32xQMgy8t3Pru4v=FM7OVkccaJU01qfg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BWntOvf0Zn0g63Twz%2Bji-6fNS3QKmH-PJUOqv-7owoTU8YUSA@mail.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> <CA%2BWntOvf0Zn0g63Twz%2Bji-6fNS3QKmH-PJUOqv-7owoTU8YUSA@mail.gmail.com>
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Everything is done at home and then I get a few miles walk to connect to the internet. Ok: Do I need to reset with ctrl+opt+p+r? Thanks for the help and patience. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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