Re: Getting started on POWER9

Justin Hibbits <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:36:28 -0500
Ali Mashtizadeh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I was skimming through the mailing list archives and saw a few
> messages saying I could boot an OpenPower off a standard install
> image.  It seems that this isn't true for the USB key as petiteboot
> doesn't know what to do with it.  Is my only choice to install from
> the cd/dvd images?
> 
> Best,
> Ali

My understanding is the USB image has *never* worked, and the cd/dvd
images will work.  You can simply write the DVD image to a USB stick
and boot from it.  I did that for my initial install.

- Justin
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