Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:10:32 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD/powerpc from external FireWire drive? Message-ID: <20101005151032.23987de0@anacreon.physics.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <EB905A3C-3983-4EE4-9EC9-C9585C0DEBFB@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <40D5CC15-8828-4CFD-AE13-2211B9742AE2@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20101001150548.6a652cba@anacreon.physics.wisc.edu> <5F44B27D-0A14-4F59-8EA2-2D52ADC4C79D@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <4CAA4828.3010906@freebsd.org> <07BF978E-D458-4138-8871-00D5AC1106C0@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20101005195613.22292695.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <8040E102-FEBF-48E3-AA06-ADD47458C963@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <AANLkTi=2PLR_BkOnD%2B4JDUVyzjSDGbvuxVL5YhCvgT9r@mail.gmail.com> <EB905A3C-3983-4EE4-9EC9-C9585C0DEBFB@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:00:15 -0400 Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote: > On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Gary wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Mather wrote: > > > >> It works when booting from the graphical boot chooser (obtained by > >> holding down the Option key during boot), but I couldn't figure > >> out a way to boot from an external FireWire drive from the > >> OpenFirmware prompt (Cmd-Opt-O-F startup). > > > > (BTW, right now I am doing all my testing on an external FireWire > hooked up to a PowerBook G4 laptop that does have a screen and > built-in keyboard, so that I can familiarise myself with the install > and boot process in preparation for hooking it up to the Xserve G5 > that lacks these graphical amenities.) > On the PowerBook, examine the properties of the OF /chosen node (ofwdump -p /chosen). That should give you the device path used by OF to boot the system. -Nathan
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