Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:45:50 -0400 From: Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerMac G4 booting from memstick image Message-ID: <443A5E73-533D-44A1-B376-361F9DFAAA1B@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0d1abd9f-7e42-b6fd-22ce-14396bafbfde@freebsd.org> References: <0d1abd9f-7e42-b6fd-22ce-14396bafbfde@freebsd.org>
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Thanks, that explains the behaviour I was seeing. I just left it as it was. So if I do end up wanting to put on NetBSD the se= ttings are in place to do that.=20 -- Sent from my "smart" phone > On Apr 20, 2021, at 14:13, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote= : >=20 > =EF=BB=BFFreeBSD boots like MacOS and will be auto-detected by firmware. T= he lazy solution is to reset OF by holding command-option-P-R at bootup and t= hen let auto-boot go. You can also use the graphical chooser to boot FreeBSD= (hold option at boot). >=20 > If you want to do it the hard way, you can boot from "hd:,\\:tbxi". > -Nathan >=20 >> On 4/20/21 1:12 AM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote: >> I was able to get FBSD-13 installed ! >>=20 >> I did two things so am not sure which one actually worked >>=20 >> 1. I changed to using an older USB stick I had >>=20 >> 2. I did the following at loader prompt >>=20 >> OK unload >> OK set kern.smp.disabled=3D=E2=80=9C1=E2=80=9D >> OK boot-conf >>=20 >>=20 >> Hopefully I did that correctly and that was the fix rather than changing t= he USB stick >>=20 >>=20 >> The problem I have now is that OpenFirmware is setup to boot NetBSD and I= don=E2=80=99t know what I need >> to set for the boot-device and boot-file variables in order for auto-boot= to work. At the moment I am unable to boot manually either. >>=20 >> cheers, >>=20 >> mehul >>=20 >>=20 >>>> On Apr 19, 2021, at 22:44 , Brandon Bergren <bdragon@FreeBSD.org> wrote= : >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, at 9:16 PM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote: >>>>=20 >>>>> On Apr 19, 2021, at 21:42 , Brandon Bergren <bdragon@FreeBSD.org> wrot= e: >>>>>=20 >>>>> This may be caused by a descynced timebase. At the loader prompt, do "= boot kern.smp.disabled=3D1" (or set it in the loader environment) and see if= that fixes it. >>>>>=20 >>>> This would be after installing freebsd yes ? >>> I meant while booting into the installer. You can hit a button during th= e countdown and boot with extra options. >>>=20 >>> Oh, and after some discussion in IRC, I realized that I was misrememberi= ng what I still needed on the G4 side, and it should theoretically work on *= all* SMP G4s as-is. >>>=20 >>>>>> Having gotten to the point of selecting Install, the keyboard wouldn= =E2=80=99t >>>>>> work. An Apple keyboard, hooked up via KVM switch, which was working= >>>>>> just fine upto that moment. >>>>> I've seen this for some reason on ADB. I can usually work around it by= using a USB keyboard. But it could be due to screwed up timers (due to time= base desync) >>>>>=20 >>>> The Apple keyboard is an USB keyboard but I worked around it by using a= >>>> spare USB keyboard I had. >>> OK. >>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> The ISO got past the mountroot issue, but too many messages of the form= >>>>=20 >>>> CAM status: CCB request completed with an error >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> I may have to see if I have other USB flash dries around and try those.= >>>> It could very well be the USB flash. I didn=E2=80=99t realize the G4s w= ould >>>> be picky about the stick that is used. >>> Well, generally the problem tends to be that the stick just plain doesn'= t show up as a disk@1 device in OF. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>> cheers, >>>>=20 >>>> mehul >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>=20 >>> --=20 >>> Brandon Bergren >>> bdragon@FreeBSD.org >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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