Re: PowerMac G4 booting from memstick image

Alfredo Dal'Ava Júnior <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <CAOpTx7Fe+YMy=W+s2-qz9V0803xPeqk19qptyG4fwdE5GUY7SQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Mehul,

It's in the FreeBSD loader but it looks like something is wrong with the
kernel, it should be loading it at this point.

Did you try release 13.0? Please write the USB stick with disc1.iso
instead, that's how I booted/installed on by G4 last time.

[]'s
Alfredo

Em seg., 19 de abr. de 2021 19:56, Mehul Sanghvi <[email protected]>
escreveu:

>
> Hi,
>
>    I am trying to boot FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE from a USB stick which had the
> memstick image on it.
>
>    I can get to the OF boot prompt, but how do I boot from there ?
>
>    The USB stick is located at the devalias usb0 as far as I can tell.
>
>    What would the boot command be ?  Looking at
> https://i.redd.it/0ypv6vmi63231.jpg it seems I need some arguments, but I
> don’t know where or how to find them.
>
>     The Handbook has instructions on how to create a memstick.img but
> nothing that I could find regarding how to boot from it.
>
>
>
> cheers,
>
>     mehul
>
>
> --
> Mehul Sanghvi
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
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