Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:45:50 -0400 From: Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerMac G4 booting from memstick image Message-ID: <443A5E73-533D-44A1-B376-361F9DFAAA1B@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0d1abd9f-7e42-b6fd-22ce-14396bafbfde@freebsd.org>
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Thanks, that explains the behaviour I was seeing. I just left it as it was. So if I do end up wanting to put on NetBSD the settings are in place to do that. -- Sent from my "smart" phone > On Apr 20, 2021, at 14:13, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > > FreeBSD boots like MacOS and will be auto-detected by firmware. The lazy solution is to reset OF by holding command-option-P-R at bootup and then let auto-boot go. You can also use the graphical chooser to boot FreeBSD (hold option at boot). > > If you want to do it the hard way, you can boot from "hd:,\\:tbxi". > -Nathan > >> On 4/20/21 1:12 AM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote: >> I was able to get FBSD-13 installed ! >> >> I did two things so am not sure which one actually worked >> >> 1. I changed to using an older USB stick I had >> >> 2. I did the following at loader prompt >> >> OK unload >> OK set kern.smp.disabled=“1” >> OK boot-conf >> >> >> Hopefully I did that correctly and that was the fix rather than changing the USB stick >> >> >> The problem I have now is that OpenFirmware is setup to boot NetBSD and I don’t know what I need >> to set for the boot-device and boot-file variables in order for auto-boot to work. At the moment I am unable to boot manually either. >> >> cheers, >> >> mehul >> >> >>>> On Apr 19, 2021, at 22:44 , Brandon Bergren <bdragon@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, at 9:16 PM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Apr 19, 2021, at 21:42 , Brandon Bergren <bdragon@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> This may be caused by a descynced timebase. At the loader prompt, do "boot kern.smp.disabled=1" (or set it in the loader environment) and see if that fixes it. >>>>> >>>> This would be after installing freebsd yes ? >>> I meant while booting into the installer. You can hit a button during the countdown and boot with extra options. >>> >>> Oh, and after some discussion in IRC, I realized that I was misremembering what I still needed on the G4 side, and it should theoretically work on *all* SMP G4s as-is. >>> >>>>>> Having gotten to the point of selecting Install, the keyboard wouldn’t >>>>>> work. An Apple keyboard, hooked up via KVM switch, which was working >>>>>> just fine upto that moment. >>>>> I've seen this for some reason on ADB. I can usually work around it by using a USB keyboard. But it could be due to screwed up timers (due to timebase desync) >>>>> >>>> The Apple keyboard is an USB keyboard but I worked around it by using a >>>> spare USB keyboard I had. >>> OK. >>> >>>> >>>> The ISO got past the mountroot issue, but too many messages of the form >>>> >>>> CAM status: CCB request completed with an error >>>> >>>> >>>> I may have to see if I have other USB flash dries around and try those. >>>> It could very well be the USB flash. I didn’t realize the G4s would >>>> be picky about the stick that is used. >>> Well, generally the problem tends to be that the stick just plain doesn't show up as a disk@1 device in OF. >>> >>> >>> >>>> cheers, >>>> >>>> mehul >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Brandon Bergren >>> bdragon@FreeBSD.org >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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"home | help
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