From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 21 01:50:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C90E99 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sendtomatt@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com (mail-pa0-f50.google.com [209.85.220.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83BE6B4 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:50:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id hz10so3087777pad.23 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:50:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ufWd03cDCeA2Jd6mVbSMokJUwhrGJnA/55ez3HwGS0E=; b=Sf8xeyVskS0Y0qnX05EeiRvn+b1Nc6oNxbmRPV5RIpS1b6DYvoSB7OCpOsgnSRlWhZ h5SGlo7BDN0Fs6weZHhDn2Qq+RNdvdhTQsSVa/2zL5IzoczImUwYui7y8zd0jtisuhDj j2lWfMtGypVVqbr0npZDPrOwqlCXyw/mT69uHqCA81oJSxh3qb5/LP0TwFFTkrS44Wvo kQLdZh7oW4r84yMn4sn/pR/A1ZgMtdtX2Jd+SPoSpL8KPjnXhE9Yt3ebSsCEFAYdZ4bj XakIsElZpyc2nS8aHQYoFs4gnw8P3/Lzb5HZEm9VQKUPoJDmd9q2PZn+jPVpNbyeki45 Y2lA== X-Received: by 10.68.236.100 with SMTP id ut4mr26062215pbc.92.1358733026924; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from flatline.local (70-36-223-239.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net. [70.36.223.239]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o5sm8187553paz.32.2013.01.20.17.50.24 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:50:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50FC9ED9.4080003@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:50:17 -0800 From: matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Super Bisquit Subject: Re: Usb image does not boot References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:50:33 -0000 On 01/20/13 16:39, Super Bisquit wrote: > I've used the forth prompt to set the boot device for usb@18/disk@1. > Maybe the usb disk needs to be set up the same way a normal disk does > with an HFS boot partition followed by the UFS partition. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Don't use boot-device (it's too fast, or the OF console isn't loaded or something), just type 'boot /pci@f2000000/usb@18/disk@1:,\ppc\boot1.elf' I think that path to the boot1 file is correct, correct me if I'm wrong. Another thing to try is 'dir /pci@f2000000/usb@18/disk@1:,\' that should list the contents of the usb drive. This could also be related to the fact some mac laptops will not properly sync their nvram after changes are made in OF. In that case it would ignore the new boot-device. Matt