From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 09:26:19 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81005FA9 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:26:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from superbisquit@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D527AC for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id 16so1115715obc.41 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:26:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Zuogfamko59FY9u4Qr+vjOaXV8B+xP+LZ6GbBzfNq50=; b=qwq1MS39mx/jY3umi/Ca+JKSo435pXpqdiTxGFSmeiaV2TMYIwSGeOuESXEOMftfLZ RBhfjuPwK6OszTk5s/0n1bBdy4sALSAptMoBAi9r88gvXI/rGHY23cnXrxgZCft0zP8V 3RSKWEMgb6EdItaEZv16UcnqyE2xiS2dJ+lW/KQ43X+Czj+OsnOGyblDlmNokvnCANXR PGm80nCD3TXojb7AMj8dd6UrCn2MZ+5di+fDkmAurUOR9QP4GHjXK2NULsTf10z9tJP+ FB3vyBGZy3o/SZJUtsSHWDDxuIauw1grI3ESTlx1/CSdiE6SPwIzdvTpU0LVHllxkipp QjJQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.13.73 with SMTP id f9mr250690oec.131.1358328378457; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:26:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.160.99 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:26:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50F66C64.9090008@gmail.com> References: <50F66C64.9090008@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:26:18 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Stupid questions on installing From: Super Bisquit To: matt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:26:19 -0000 On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:01 AM, matt wrote: > On 01/16/2013 00:05, Super Bisquit wrote: >> I'd like to know if anyone has used the memstick image to >> install FreeBSD to a PowerpC32 machine and what was done to the usb >> device with the dd command. >> > Yes, G4 MDD FW400. Also boots OS9, NetBSD, OpenBSD this way. OS X might > work, didn't care to try. > > pv -ptre memstick.img | dd of=/dev/da0 obs=2M > > pv just for the progress bar because I hate dd's reticence. 2M because > it was fastest for that particular usb stick. Otherwise nothing fancy. I'll use the reference that you have here to run the dd command. Still, did you need to format it to hfs or not? > > Booting with option sometimes worked. Sometimes claim failed or it would > spit out other nonsense (I thought adler was a german bird...) > Booting with /pci@f2000000/blah/disk@1:,\\:tbxi caused screen corruption > for a moment and sometimes worked > Booting with /pci@f2000000/blah/disk@1:,\ppc\boot1.elf worked every time > Where blah is usb@X[,Y] > > Since you can redirect OF to telnet, at least this stage can be easier > if you can blind type those commands and have a telnet client available > on another machine. Will I need to add the dhcp server to the second machine in order to run the telnet interface? > > Naturally installing is quite slow over usb 1.1, with a random NEC based > USB2.0 card I was also able to install much faster. > I know that debian has a ttyUSBX available but that doesn't seem to be the issue with FreeBSD. > No idea about serial console, I only have the weird internal modem > connector and I haven't figured out how to get a TTL console on it yet. > No pinout appears available, although the traces seem to indicate some > likely pins... > > Do you have something like a G4port on the Titanium? I assume G4 modem > header 5v/3.3v TTL maybe? I'm not sure. I'll see what the OF commands say when I run them at the forth prompt. > > Matt > >