Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 12:55:03 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcement: PowerNV support in 12-CURRENT Message-ID: <2fe05228-7d59-74b2-1df0-80887635dae9@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <9eadcc5d-9907-9e4b-977b-b7c8f596ad0f@br.ibm.com> References: <CANsEV8dSoqiWErQC0Jh0oQ%2B3022_-RtmSzacVdZRbY8yxvuCsg@mail.gmail.com> <e3989713-05ed-9db6-4ecd-5ce2c539b74d@br.ibm.com> <b57ba1c7-4ca4-cc2b-922e-c35069d902aa@freebsd.org> <9eadcc5d-9907-9e4b-977b-b7c8f596ad0f@br.ibm.com>
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On 04/09/18 12:42, Breno Leitao wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > On 04/09/2018 04:23 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> >> On 04/09/18 10:28, Breno Leitao wrote: >>> Hello Wojciech, >>> >>> On 03/05/2018 08:43 AM, Wojciech Macek wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I'm happy to announce that running FreeBSD on Power8 with PowerNV is now >>>> possible since r330240. >>> This is a very impressive and interesting work. Thanks!!! >>> >>> Quick question, do you have a documentation that explains how to install >>> FreeBSD on a PowerNV machine with petitboot? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> You should just be able to put the CD in and press enter repeatedly in the >> installer, as with any other platform. > I am more wondering if there is an way to netinstall it other than installing > by a CD. > > It is the easist way to install to whom do not have physicall access to the > machine. > Ah. Netinstall is trickier as a result of some limitations in the kernel's nfsroot support. There is not a clear way to allow the kernel to conditionally boot from NFS if not started from loader, which we don't use on PowerNV, so you will have to use a custom kernel with options BOOTP. -Nathan
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