From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 21:00:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB350D47 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asp.reflexion.net (outbound-241.asp.reflexion.net [69.84.129.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A52AF2C2E for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:00:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27677 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2014 21:00:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-cs-02.app.dca.reflexion.local) (10.81.19.2) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with SMTP; 19 Dec 2014 21:00:14 -0000 Received: by mail-cs-02.app.dca.reflexion.local (Reflexion email security v7.30.7) with SMTP; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:00:14 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 20655 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2014 21:00:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iron2.pdx.net) (69.64.224.71) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 19 Dec 2014 21:00:13 -0000 X-No-Relay: not in my network X-No-Relay: not in my network Received: from [192.168.1.8] (c-67-189-19-145.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.189.19.145]) by iron2.pdx.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D24C81C4052; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:00:32 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Millard Subject: FreeBSD 10.1 PPC64 on XServe G5 hangs at Openfirmware Loader [USB stick booting a PowerMac G5] Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:00:35 -0800 Message-Id: <82907CD9-FF12-4D98-BD46-3F5B017B4638@dsl-only.net> To: brittman914@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:00:41 -0000 I'm not sure which stage(s) you are after: Produce a usb memstick or = just booting it after you have it. Also this is/was for a PowerMac G5 = ("quad"), not for a XServe. (I've never had my hands on an XServe.) A) Producing the memstick... Given the variety of possibilities for producing the stick, = possibilities not limited to using the Powermac/XServer context, I'll = just report for that: = https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/announce.html lists for unix-like = contexts something similar to... sudo dd = if=3DFreeBSD-10.1-STABLE-powerpc-powerpc64-20141207-r275566-memstick.img = \ of=3D/dev/ bs=3D10240 conv=3Dsync where you need to figure out the based on the context = you are working in and you might use a different .img file. (I used = Modern Mac OS X to produce mine.) You might not need sudo but I did. You = would first need to dismount any existing, already-mounted file systems = from that stick (if any). The above puts down everything in the proper = formats, including the partitioning: a very low level complete = overwrite. Typos in can be a disaster: be careful. B) Booting from the memstick... Booting into openfirmware (using command-option-O-F) with the updated = stick already plugged in the front automatically bound ud: to the stick = appropriately. (No other USB sticks plugged in so it was the only USB = disk.) The openfirmware command dir ud:2,\ppc (I think it was) would list the bootinfo.txt file that I reference below = if ud: was bound automatically. (The 2 picks out the slice/partition to = find the ppc folder/directory in.) At the prompt I then used: boot ud:2,\ppc\bootinfo.txt =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net