Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:13:16 +0000 From: Abu Hussain Al Mukhtar <abuhussain@secure.mailbox.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Abu Hussain Al Mukhtar <abuhussain@secure.mailbox.org>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooting an xserve G5? Message-ID: <Z4FxTOJ-IkFGty6W@dragonfly.nameserver.nu> In-Reply-To: <Z4EpF2nAIVLpGYLz@FreeBSD.org> References: <Z4D_T3yepueYI91r@dragonfly.nameserver.nu> <Z4EpF2nAIVLpGYLz@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi Alexey, Thank you very much - I totally missed that guide. It worked, and I am able to boot single user now. The only problem: the host runs e x c r u c i a t i n g l y slow - not as in 'it lags!', but as in 'I have to wait for minutes until what I type on the keyboard appears on the screen', so the system really isn't usable in this state. My NFS server is a DragonFly box. It has netbooted, as I stated before, NetBSD and OpenBSD seamlessly. I checked the FreeBSD docs, specifically the 'Advanced Networking' section which describes PXE, but there is no mention of specific/preferred flags to be passed to NFS/mountd. Has anyone seen this behaviour before and/or could you share the relevant portion of your rc.conf so I can check it against mine? Alexey: Thanks again for the useful hint! BR.- * Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 11:06:55AM +0000, Abu Hussain Al Mukhtar wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > As the subject line implies, I am looking for a way to netboot an > > XServe G5 using the ppc64 port. This server I got for close to nothing > > is on an excellent state, though unfortunately, the CD drive is not > > really working (it ejects every CD/DVD I have ever tried to feed it), and > > there are conflicting accounts on whether or not these machines can boot > > from an USB stick. > > I've never bothered to boot my macs from removable media, and always > preferred netbooting, esp. given how easy it is to setup. This is the > first option recommended by grehan@ in his guide* and that's how I've > installed FreeBSD on all my G4/G5 machines. HTH, > > ./danfe > > *) https://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html >
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