PowerMac G4 booting from memstick image

[Mehul Sanghvi]

> On Apr 19, 2021, at 21:42 , Brandon Bergren <bdragon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> This may be caused by a descynced timebase. At the loader prompt, do "boot kern.smp.disabled=1" (or set it in the loader environment) and see if that fixes it.
> 

This would be after installing freebsd yes ? 

>> 
>> Having gotten to the point of selecting Install,  the keyboard wouldn’t 
>> work.  An Apple keyboard, hooked up via KVM switch, which was working 
>> just fine upto that moment.  
> 
> I've seen this for some reason on ADB. I can usually work around it by using a USB keyboard. But it could be due to screwed up timers (due to timebase desync)
> 

The Apple keyboard is an USB keyboard but I worked around it by using a spare USB keyboard I had.


The ISO got past the mountroot issue, but too many messages of the form

    CAM status: CCB request completed with an error


I may have to see if I have other USB flash dries around and try those.  It could very well be the USB flash.  I didn’t realize the G4s would be picky about the stick that is used.



cheers,

    mehul