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> In-Reply-To: <CADyfeQWRqxXSt-VFRv%2BPEg0KkFZTcy84x6772SwsRYKD92EDig@mail.gmail.com>
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I've had similar trouble, which I mentioned on this list in the past. The PowerMac is finicky about USB sticks. It seems that it does work with U3 drives and other newer drives. I was only able to boot from one older 2 GB drive that has since burned out, so I'm unable to upgrade at 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 might change. JB On 3/7/21 10:18 PM, Julio Merino wrote: > However, here is where the strangeness starts. I want to repartition the > boot (SSD) drive now... and I just cannot get the installer to work again. > Using the same image as before and the same USB stick, the installation > kernel loads without issues from OpenFirmware... but as soon as it starts > 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 tried > with another drive and found the same problem. I'm pretty sure the drive is > good given that it can be read from another system.) -- Earth is a beta site.home | help
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