From nobody Fri Jan 10 19:20:44 2025 X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4YVBMN3LGXz5kNWx for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:20:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhibbits@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::24b:4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "R10" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4YVBMN2jGmz4Q45; Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:20:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhibbits@FreeBSD.org) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=freebsd.org; s=dkim; t=1736536848; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=D5Gjoc/1jYkbEod15ZPsJPQXlJDw5CVHGOnMHR3VyBo=; b=Rrqxp7GtQB5kU56RWbQIfbmwhl3YAg42W6kuUOY6hkzIgkMr1Rjup/MXCnqtW/1PAJTU4O dzB7r9lSOCswwPy+IurX9NTqS3+BF0boMkz3g/QUL2PgjS3nmPWxCAG7jH92Isdf0piwkY XHBd4vD4Bwo69pr8bJ3/6SGhd81Sp/uVisJ8cP7kYnwiYWoFXxg598XiiYQR3LVAbNacqV QpfazjeO4QaNkNcE6Xxakw0UPgcH7nO5/j9dp3ZnE+Jhd3kHkootvvXJ5L3LySXXDeThZR e2FDnmLUM/vRNMXOS1pi5WWi8xJL5dhQvFoGbG3nY53zta212LZ12EvwjcEs8w== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=freebsd.org; s=dkim; t=1736536848; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=D5Gjoc/1jYkbEod15ZPsJPQXlJDw5CVHGOnMHR3VyBo=; b=M9Ffzi/ePURqPI2Ze5Z10ViNs4syfFX9mUkFQ0MzoUQcW1vzQ0cAurFQo/J0GN0bDUr7zP y7y38+WgAeDM6aUNvzv3TOReEKFIqFpwrW3e+1WJJS+sY06dL7eLUFKPvNzrcNnKZjftYU XKzUM6ZAxMI/6kPjIYdxVHKyAiZxAV2xG2GC8J2zRzfwlKBxZqxM824cWXjr7KhKhLd3mY HIxAx9QO4l1tQAit0eAsAOut8+7R6Ngf+PyXat2lLpFIt0v/3B8H7NMUBDYwtBUM9VoKE+ LCOnC+/n+lsj0XPGp+e4CX400bNTBN7Rha9ePIUNdqqN3HriybtgRmvUkWBQJA== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=dkim; d=freebsd.org; t=1736536848; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=ozp6umPxo5Zqz1NeBMSBV7LNSWoflwzbKYxlA6GuH9m5kaWG1xXroMFDAqlZtP9NAEcf9h HJuvCrNh2UBdr7pdiAy1si2mXFQn9kHG3fdnpn0lGFjvTLvJuAN6LBPaxMKIdF+mZJmJ/B O7WQmVpRS6Uz7La3ttfwdXWsWRq4po19Ic4Zw+LSfQr/7RlhMpGmub3z/Y035u/lpoXC2h Hv5rLw42V64klkrg8RAu282fs1VMVMKKg+zrEkUZKFOFrHp7KCovGWokNK+GF+RlHePaOm GKzZLP5mgiv/pj880BHE/Qsl/ZCR0WVZ+6RzJj41zv0MZAJaTZYtiH11XD6a1g== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from ralga.knownspace (unknown [IPv6:2600:2b00:a720:d301:9f03:382a:d672:81f0]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: jhibbits) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4YVBMN1JvVzxT6; Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:20:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhibbits@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:20:44 -0500 From: Justin Hibbits To: Abu Hussain Al Mukhtar Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev , freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooting an xserve G5? Message-ID: <20250110142044.0fa100b5@ralga.knownspace> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.43; powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu) List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ppc List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is this an SMP XServe, or a single CPU? If SMP, you can try disabling SMP with "kern.smp.disabled=1" at loader prompt, and see if that improves things. It sounds counter-intuitive, but if there's a bug in the clock sync that could explain the problem. I recall a PR opened about something related. - Justin On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:13:16 +0000 Abu Hussain Al Mukhtar wrote: > Hi Alexey, > > Thank you very much - I totally missed that guide. > > It worked, and I am able to boot single user now. > > The only problem: the host runs e x c r u c i a t i n g l y slow - > not as in 'it lags!', but as in 'I have to wait for minutes until > what I type on the keyboard appears on the screen', so the system > really isn't usable in this state. > > My NFS server is a DragonFly box. It has netbooted, as I stated > before, NetBSD and OpenBSD seamlessly. I checked the FreeBSD docs, > specifically the 'Advanced Networking' section which describes PXE, > but there is no mention of specific/preferred flags to be passed to > NFS/mountd. > > Has anyone seen this behaviour before and/or could you share the > relevant portion of your rc.conf so I can check it against mine? > > Alexey: Thanks again for the useful hint! > > BR.- > > * Alexey Dokuchaev : > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 11:06:55AM +0000, Abu Hussain Al Mukhtar > > wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > As the subject line implies, I am looking for a way to netboot an > > > XServe G5 using the ppc64 port. This server I got for close to > > > nothing is on an excellent state, though unfortunately, the CD > > > drive is not really working (it ejects every CD/DVD I have ever > > > tried to feed it), and there are conflicting accounts on whether > > > or not these machines can boot from an USB stick. > > > > I've never bothered to boot my macs from removable media, and always > > preferred netbooting, esp. given how easy it is to setup. This is > > the first option recommended by grehan@ in his guide* and that's > > how I've installed FreeBSD on all my G4/G5 machines. HTH, > > > > ./danfe > > > > *) https://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html > > >