Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:40:28 -0500 From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> To: Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com> Cc: "freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org" <freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: memstick installation for sparc64? Message-ID: <20130224224028.GB37062@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <5007C54B-DA08-41AE-88F0-274A625FF220@distal.com> References: <5007C54B-DA08-41AE-88F0-274A625FF220@distal.com>
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 03:55:56PM -0500, Chris Ross wrote: > I have a Sun Netra X1 I'd like to install FreeBSD onto. I intend > two drives in it, and while I _could_ install one disc, load from > an IDE CD-R, then install the other and > reconfigure, I was looking into the idea of either: > > a) boot/install from a USB optical drive, or > b) boot/install from a USB flash drive. Only "some" ultrasparcs have the ability to boot from USB. I've attempted to get the prom to probe/boot from usb thumb drive on my sunfire v240, but haven't gotten success there. (I've successfully booted other i386/amd64 machines from this particular thumb drive, so I know that modern-ish BIOS on those machines find this drive "OK" with regards to booting.) I haven't attempted it on my sunfire v120 yet. I don't have a USB cdrom/dvd to try it with. There's this, that says OBP 4.27 (or newer) is required: http://www.purplecow.org/index.php/SPARC_USB_Boot My SunFire V240 has: OpenBoot 4.16.2 My V120 has: OpenBoot 4.0 So, I doubt it will work on any of the machines I have. I don't know what you have in your X1, but it's an easy first thing to check. -Kurt > I notice, that at least for 9.1 release, there are only boot1 and disc1 ISO's for sparc64. > Does this suggest that the memstick image is known not to work? > > In any case, has anyone been able to get either of my desired solutions above to work > on a sparc64? I'm wanting to install a self-built 9-stable, in case that matters. > > Thanks. > > - Chris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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