Troubles with USB

[Julio Merino]

Well, note that the USB stick and drive that I mentioned had previously
worked on this machine. And OpenFirmware still sees them well and can boot
the loader and kernel just fine. It's FreeBSD the one that gets confused
when mounting the root file system...

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 6:30 AM Jason Bacon <bacon4000 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I've had similar trouble, which I mentioned on this list in the past.
> The PowerMac is finicky about USB sticks.  It seems that it does work
> with U3 drives and other newer drives.  I was only able to boot from one
> older 2 GB drive that has since burned out, so I'm unable to upgrade at
> the moment, given that my optical drive can't read DVDs.
>
> If you can find a USB stick the same vintage as the PowerMac, your luck
> might change.
>
>      JB
>
> On 3/7/21 10:18 PM, Julio Merino wrote:
> > However, here is where the strangeness starts. I want to repartition the
> > boot (SSD) drive now... and I just cannot get the installer to work
> again.
> > Using the same image as before and the same USB stick, the installation
> > kernel loads without issues from OpenFirmware... but as soon as it starts
> > loading /sbin/init, things start failing left and right. It feels as if
> > there is I/O corruption when reading from the USB drive given that the
> > system reports "invalid binary files" and segfaults everywhere. (I tried
> > with another drive and found the same problem. I'm pretty sure the drive
> is
> > good given that it can be read from another system.)
>
>
> --
> Earth is a beta site.
>
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