From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 09:01:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E4A885 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:01:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sendtomatt@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com (mail-pb0-f46.google.com [209.85.160.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A13E3674 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id wy7so615203pbc.33 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:01:34 -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=bqRpuh6nDr4cNZERVObnFlB+qWX9vya6+fnuQO0lZkE=; b=ItUqtMjO78Po2zRH1y5YJTIkOxisBops1EdqGnaB0WqyRjuSwNWFyvQpE3vfcEFeH5 1F4cUTTPj8UEj8WwY1lAHZmTbcIXTb1naztKMTmIqySotq+7YjgShyPkNliKFpbZZ+PV Npj4D3YBupdWrEVdkIgU7p6Y+ius+2Y/qGLIhJ0PhOGQgy4e775sCkmBIOmFB+6CgbcN LwCYUCzBqQtZKyUn2VDkV9yqdaSHJieQY2ChLaY51hEniNatGqjh20wmJ2od6dbKjwj1 EhqYoCSWEMKGRErdZTnT2g2z3SMcimjczuQ8U76NBvj+vCujrR5XyjcbfQ8VaaeWX6C7 eDSg== X-Received: by 10.68.237.42 with SMTP id uz10mr788818pbc.118.1358326894783; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:01:34 -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 oi2sm11920843pbb.62.2013.01.16.01.01.32 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:01:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50F66C64.9090008@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:01:24 -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: Stupid questions on installing 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: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:01:41 -0000 On 01/16/2013 00:05, Super Bisquit wrote: > I'd like to know if anyone has used the memstick image to > install FreeBSD to a PowerpC32 machine and what was done to the usb > device with the dd command. > Yes, G4 MDD FW400. Also boots OS9, NetBSD, OpenBSD this way. OS X might work, didn't care to try. pv -ptre memstick.img | dd of=/dev/da0 obs=2M pv just for the progress bar because I hate dd's reticence. 2M because it was fastest for that particular usb stick. Otherwise nothing fancy. Booting with option sometimes worked. Sometimes claim failed or it would spit out other nonsense (I thought adler was a german bird...) Booting with /pci@f2000000/blah/disk@1:,\\:tbxi caused screen corruption for a moment and sometimes worked Booting with /pci@f2000000/blah/disk@1:,\ppc\boot1.elf worked every time Where blah is usb@X[,Y] Since you can redirect OF to telnet, at least this stage can be easier if you can blind type those commands and have a telnet client available on another machine. Naturally installing is quite slow over usb 1.1, with a random NEC based USB2.0 card I was also able to install much faster. No idea about serial console, I only have the weird internal modem connector and I haven't figured out how to get a TTL console on it yet. No pinout appears available, although the traces seem to indicate some likely pins... Do you have something like a G4port on the Titanium? I assume G4 modem header 5v/3.3v TTL maybe? Matt