From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 09:30:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCF61065677 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:30:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from eterpe-smout.broadpark.no (eterpe-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A488FC15 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:30:42 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from terra-smin.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.13]) by eterpe-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTP id <0LTX00IB0BR5NY60@eterpe-smout.broadpark.no> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:30:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no ([84.48.120.32]) by terra-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with SMTP id <0LTX00B2HBR48480@terra-smin.broadpark.no> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:30:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:30:40 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-id: <20111031103040.daa92dc2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-reply-to: References: <20111026181947.ce8c22ad.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20111029230814.7de65ff6.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.2 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Subject: Re: Loader/installer problems - can't load 'kernel' X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:30:43 -0000 On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:03:21 -0400 Chris Carr 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