FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 on a PowerBook G4

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

FYI, I just tried booting the FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 image (disc1) on a
PowerBook G4[1]. This PowerBook has a broken optical drive, so I just
dd'ed the image onto a usb memory stick, and booted that from Open
Firmware.
(Would it be possible to add an Apple boot partition to a usb memory
stick so it could boot from the boot menu (option / alt key) on a Mac?)
The image did work, I got to the main menu, and could select Fixit, but
when I tried "livefs from usb", the installer claimed that there were no
USB devices available. Full details on the FreeBSD page[2] for this
machine.


References:
1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powerbook_g4
2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powerbook_g4_freebsd
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Torfinn