Re: Getting started on POWER9
Nathan Whitehorn <[email protected]>
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On 12/6/18 7:54 AM, Justin Hibbits wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > We should probably just stop providing the "memstick" image, actually. They are only needed (as an alternative to putting the DVD image on a USB stick) for a tiny subset of very old Apple computers -- I think just one or two models -- and don't even work on a much wider swath of more recent hardware. -Nathan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"