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Date:      Mon, 8 Mar 2021 08:30:34 -0600
From:      Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Troubles with USB
Message-ID:  <c8fada99-3622-8d19-cef9-81a88ccf8224@gmail.com>
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I've had similar trouble, which I mentioned on this list in the past.=C2=A0=
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The PowerMac is finicky about USB sticks.=C2=A0 It seems that it does wor=
k=20
with U3 drives and other newer drives.=C2=A0 I was only able to boot from=
 one=20
older 2 GB drive that has since burned out, so I'm unable to upgrade at=20
the moment, given that my optical drive can't read DVDs.

If you can find a USB stick the same vintage as the PowerMac, your luck=20
might change.

 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 JB

On 3/7/21 10:18 PM, Julio Merino wrote:
> However, here is where the strangeness starts. I want to repartition th=
e
> boot (SSD) drive now... and I just cannot get the installer to work aga=
in.
> Using the same image as before and the same USB stick, the installation=

> kernel loads without issues from OpenFirmware... but as soon as it star=
ts
> loading /sbin/init, things start failing left and right. It feels as if=

> there is I/O corruption when reading from the USB drive given that the
> system reports "invalid binary files" and segfaults everywhere. (I trie=
d
> with another drive and found the same problem. I'm pretty sure the driv=
e is
> good given that it can be read from another system.)


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