usb boot on sparc

[Joe Kozak]

What about booting off another os cdrom into ram (init line option), linux comes to mind, then eject cdrom and switch to the second cd, and try dumping the partition on the disk so you can reboot off the cd image off the hard drive.   Might get stuck partitioning around the image while its mounted if indeed it will correct boot and load root fs of the install

JK

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From: owner-freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org on behalf of Kurt Lidl <lidl at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 10:23 AM
To: freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: usb boot on sparc

Well, you can netboot the host, assuming you have control of some other
host on the same network segment. It's a little fiddly to setup, but
not impossible.

Or, you could get a disk image of an already installed machine, and just
'dd' that onto a disk that could be inserted into the machine you want
to run on.

If you only have the single sparc64 machine, and no other host to help
you get it installed, you are probably out of luck.

-Kurt

On 1/4/19 10:41 AM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:
> Ok, and if a device has no cdrom how can i boot the installer?
>
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> Do: freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org
> Wysłane: piątek, 4 styczeń 2019 16:14:48
> Temat: Re: usb boot on sparc
>
> On 1/4/19 8:27 AM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:
>> I am trying to install FreeBSD on sparc64. Is there a way to boot Sun Fire v125 or higher server via usb?
>> Or is the netboot and cdrom the only way
>
> None of the models of sparc64 that FreeBSD runs on are capable of
> booting off the USB ports.
>
> After you get FreeBSD installed, the ports work fine. Although slow, as
> they are USB 1.1.
>
> -Kurt
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