PowerMac G4 booting from memstick image

[Brandon Bergren]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, at 9:16 PM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
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> > On Apr 19, 2021, at 21:42 , Brandon Bergren <bdragon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> This would be after installing freebsd yes ? 

I meant while booting into the installer. You can hit a button during the countdown and boot with extra options.

Oh, and after some discussion in IRC, I realized that I was misremembering what I still needed on the G4 side, and it should theoretically work on *all* SMP G4s as-is.

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

OK.

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> The ISO got past the mountroot issue, but too many messages of the form
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>     CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
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> 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.

Well, generally the problem tends to be that the stick just plain doesn't show up as a disk at 1 device in OF.



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> cheers,
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>     mehul
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  Brandon Bergren
  bdragon at FreeBSD.org