PowerMac G4 booting from memstick image

[Mehul Sanghvi]

Hi Alfredo,


   I may have confused things with the link I included in my email.  The picture is of someone else
 who was booting off an USB stick.  I was using the command they used, adapted for my device
settings:

      ok >  boot usb0:/disk at 1:,\ppc\boot1.elf

 Does that look like the correct command to use for booting from USB ?  

 I’ll go ahead and create an image with 13.0 and see if that works.  As I understand it 13.0 handles SMP on the G4 better, and since I have a G$ with 2 CPUs, that would be better anyway.


cheers,

    mehul

--
Mehul Sanghvi
mehul.sanghvi at gmail.com




> On Apr 19, 2021, at 19:10 , Alfredo Dal'Ava Júnior <alfredo at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mehul.sanghvi at gmail.com> 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
> mehul.sanghvi at gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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