Stupid questions on installing

[Super Bisquit]

The output-device needs to be reset to screen.
I tested 9.0-RELEASE both iso and memstick and they don't fully boot.
Nathan, have you tested the images in qemu recently? They seem to be
crapping out some.

I also need someone with a powerboo or an ibook to tell me what the
output-device is: is it output-device screen or output-device-1
screen?

I wanted to use 9.0 being that I already have a small repository built
for that release.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:41 PM, matt <sendtomatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/16/2013 01:26, Super Bisquit wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:01 AM, matt <sendtomatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/16/2013 00:05, Super Bisquit wrote:
>
>  I'd like to know if anyone has used the memstick image to
> install FreeBSD to a PowerpC32 machine and what was done to the usb
> device with the dd command.
>
> Yes, G4 MDD FW400. Also boots OS9, NetBSD, OpenBSD this way. OS X might
> work, didn't care to try.
>
> pv -ptre memstick.img | dd of=/dev/da0 obs=2M
>
> pv just for the progress bar because I hate dd's reticence. 2M because
> it was fastest for that particular usb stick. Otherwise nothing fancy.
>
> I'll use the reference that you have here to run the dd command.
> Still, did you need to format it to hfs or not?
>
> Booting with option sometimes worked. Sometimes claim failed or it would
> spit out other nonsense (I thought adler was a german bird...)
> Booting with /pci at f2000000/blah/disk at 1:,\\:tbxi caused screen corruption
> for a moment and sometimes worked
> Booting with /pci at f2000000/blah/disk at 1:,\ppc\boot1.elf worked every time
> Where blah is usb at X[,Y]
>
> Since you can redirect OF to telnet, at least this stage can be easier
> if you can blind type those commands and have a telnet client available
> on another machine.
>
> Will I need to add the dhcp server to the second machine in order to
> run the telnet interface?
>
> Naturally installing is quite slow over usb 1.1, with a random NEC based
> USB2.0 card I was also able to install much faster.
>
> I know that debian has a ttyUSBX available but that doesn't seem to be
> the issue with FreeBSD.
>
> No idea about serial console, I only have the weird internal modem
> connector and I haven't figured out how to get a TTL console on it yet.
> No pinout appears available, although the traces seem to indicate some
> likely pins...
>
> Do you have something like a G4port on the Titanium? I assume G4 modem
> header 5v/3.3v TTL maybe?
>
> I'm not sure. I'll see what the OF commands say when I run them at the
> forth prompt.
>
> Matt
>
>
> I may have gotten slightly confused between the couple messages. I thought a
> hardware serial port was involved.
>
> As far as OpenFirmware via telnet:
> http://www.fenestrated.net/~macman/mirrors/Apple%20Technotes%20(As%20of%202002)/tn/tn2004.html
>
> No DHCP server is necessary, but you'll have to type the commands mentioned
> in the technote blind.
> Once you're in, you can possibly set the boot-command to the correct telnet
> command or put it in an nvramrc.
>
> Did we ever have an OF-only syscons for FreeBSD (probably early on)? I
> wonder if it would also go over telnet...
>
> Personally I would do a DESTDIR=  install over firewire in target disk mode
> preferably in this situation, then chroot to it on the host and configure it
> to get sshd running...
> Once setup just reboot the titanium and ssh in.
> This should be possible from any FreeBSD system with firewire since we can
> cross-build world and kernel.
>
> As far as USB:
>
> I didn't format anything. I tested 9.1-RC3, I can test release tomorrow. I
> just dd the image onto the stick, I may have zeroed the first couple
> megabytes first to "clean" off any junk.
>
> My G4 will not always try to boot from USB, it has to be directed to do so
> via the Option menu. It might try if there was no other bootable disk, can't
> remember.
> USB is *not* hotplug for Openfirmware, so put the stick in before you turn
> on the machine.
>
> I did have a variety of errors trying to boot the stick directly at times,
> especially with different releases and even other BSDs. The most reliable
> way to boot it was to type the full path to the boot1.elf in OF. If it fails
> you have to reboot to get OF clean again.
>
> Matt
>
>