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> References: <CADyfeQWRqxXSt-VFRv%2BPEg0KkFZTcy84x6772SwsRYKD92EDig@mail.gmail.com>
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I've had similar trouble, which I mentioned on this list in the past.=C2=A0= =20 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.) --=20 Earth is a beta site.
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