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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2018 08:45:27 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org, "mashtizadeh@gmail.com >> Ali Mashtizadeh" <mashtizadeh@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Getting started on POWER9
Message-ID:  <2dd4585f-e905-59da-8d44-8fa11e47f06b@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAFL8=tjdvcHP_Nb5HNSMoK%2B4drwzgy-nRsLnd=TC6=Sg34n5Xg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAFL8=tjdvcHP_Nb5HNSMoK%2B4drwzgy-nRsLnd=TC6=Sg34n5Xg@mail.gmail.com>

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From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org,
 "mashtizadeh@gmail.com >> Ali Mashtizadeh" <mashtizadeh@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2dd4585f-e905-59da-8d44-8fa11e47f06b@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Getting started on POWER9
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On 12/6/18 8:36 AM, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>=20
> I was skimming through the mailing list archives and saw a few messages=

> saying I could boot an OpenPower off a standard install image.  It seem=
s
> that this isn't true for the USB key as petiteboot doesn't know what to=
 do
> with it.  Is my only choice to install from the cd/dvd images?
>=20
> Best,
> Ali

=46rom my experience, the only filesystem in common between
petitboot(linux) and FreeBSD is FAT.  So, yeah, you'd have to boot from
the CD.

I was able to netboot FreeBSD PPC from an NFS server (x86) after I
compiled a custom netboot kernel with the following added to GENERIC64:

options BOOTP
options BOOTP_NFSROOT
options BOOTP_COMPAT

sean


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