Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:01:05 -0400 From: Chris Carr <carrch@mac.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader/installer problems - can't load 'kernel' Message-ID: <FE9B8C51-046A-4D00-9B69-2B34A06FFD57@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20111026181947.ce8c22ad.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <D393E536-D4F0-4015-9F1F-36C880035FF5@mac.com> <20111026181947.ce8c22ad.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Thanks for trying to help, Torfinn!
Specs of machines:
Powerbook G4 1.5Ghz, 1.25gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
iMac G3 (Summer 2001) 600MHz, ATI Rage 128
The "load sbp" command (entered at OF boot loader) results with: can't
find 'sbp'
I've tried a partition on my Powerbook's internal HD with BSD 9.0
liveCD on it and it's not cooperating either.
Does DiskUtility or (command line) asr work for loading necessary boot
blocks on to a device?
The dd command does a device/block copy which is somehow different
than an asr restore?
I'm just confused as to what is going on since open firmware can see
all the files on HFS (or HFS+), OF can start the boot loader, but then
the boot loader loses all knowledge of any filesystems.
Using the devalias (of USB stick or FW ext HD) doesn't seem to help.
Maybe it all goes back to how the files are getting on to the (not a
CD) install partition...
Thanks,
Chris Carr
On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:06:48 -0400
> Chris Carr <carrch@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I've tried to install FreeBSD 8.2 on two different Macs which both
>
>> have bad optical drives. So I am trying to perform the install from
>> removable media. I've tried USB flash drive and an external firewire
>> HD. Neither is working. I can get the loader to boot (manually
>> through
>
> I think that for firewire devices to work (past the boot menu
> stage), you need to load the sbp module.
> Use the menu to get to a boot prompt, then do "load sbp", then "boot".
> Now, see if that will alllow you to install from a firewire device.
>
>> I can use dir <OF device tree path>,:\ to list the contents of the
>> install CD on the flash drive. I've passed the argument of the <OF
>> device tree path> to the loader when I run the boot command.
>
> FWIW, to make this work, I had to make an alias ("ud") in OF.
> Using the complete OF device tree path with the boot command didn't
> work for some reason.
> With the alias, it worked every time on the machines I have tried it
> on.
> Not all Macs are the same, YMMV.
> --
> Regards,
> Torfinn Ingolfsen
>
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