Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:30:40 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader/installer problems - can't load 'kernel' Message-ID: <20111031103040.daa92dc2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <BED13D61-5E95-4188-A171-7658C83C71CC@mac.com> References: <D393E536-D4F0-4015-9F1F-36C880035FF5@mac.com> <20111026181947.ce8c22ad.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <FE9B8C51-046A-4D00-9B69-2B34A06FFD57@mac.com> <20111029230814.7de65ff6.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <BED13D61-5E95-4188-A171-7658C83C71CC@mac.com>
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:03:21 -0400 Chris Carr <carrch@mac.com> wrote: > I have been able to get 'ls' from the boot loader to show the > filesystem on the USB stick. > The only way I was able to get that to even was by settings the OF > devalias for cd to the device path of the USB stick. Strange. It has worked for me in the past, using a ud alias. Perhaps the ROM on your machine is too old to recognize / use an ud alias? (No, that doesn't sound likely) > I finally got the optical drive on the Powerbook to read the BSD > install disc and the install CD worked flawlessly. Good! > Seems to me that the boot loader just won't cooperate, since I'm > taking files that are supposed to be for a CD-ROM and everything built- > in to the boot process on the live cd or install cd are assuming > you're using an optical drive. FWIW, it has worked for me in the past. My procedure: 1) use dd (on a FreeBSD machine) to write the *.iso image to a memory stick (usb) 2) plug the memory stick into the G4 PowerBook, and use OF to figure out where it is connected 3) make a 'ud' alias, example: devalias ud /pci@f2000000/usb@1b,1/disk@1 4) boot from ud, example: boot ud:,\boot\loader ud:0 As you can see, I used the iso image; the machine didn't care that I put it on a memory stick. > Perhaps I can just figure out how to modify the boot loader on .rc or > conf files to make them work? IMHO, there shouldn't be anything to modify; this should just work. Perhaps the image / snapshot you are using is broken? (This has happened in the past) > Does BSD require a root filesystem at boot, similar to how a linux > liveCD will use a RAM disk? Yes - root file system (and it is on the image). > the live CD and install CD iso images are all HFS standard partitions > on the CD. The ppc iso image is a hybrid iso9660 / HFS image (I know because I can mount it with -t cd9660). > asr is the apple system restore utility for cloning (block-level or > file-level.) Ok. -- Torfinn
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