Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:22:04 -0500 From: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 on a PowerBook G4 Message-ID: <AANLkTinynb3=_tMfCscvY7bbckvNuD-YAzjVh%2BsXbQrv@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110116234832.100f1617.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20110116234832.100f1617.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/06/freebsd-80-install-with-a-usb-stick/ It may work. On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen < torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote: > FYI, I just tried booting the FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 image (disc1) on a > PowerBook G4[1]. This PowerBook has a broken optical drive, so I just > dd'ed the image onto a usb memory stick, and booted that from Open > Firmware. > (Would it be possible to add an Apple boot partition to a usb memory > stick so it could boot from the boot menu (option / alt key) on a Mac?) > The image did work, I got to the main menu, and could select Fixit, but > when I tried "livefs from usb", the installer claimed that there were no > USB devices available. Full details on the FreeBSD page[2] for this > machine. > > > References: > 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powerbook_g4 > 2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powerbook_g4_freebsd > -- > Torfinn > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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