Getting started on POWER9

[Sean Bruno]

On 12/6/18 8:36 AM, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I was skimming through the mailing list archives and saw a few messages
> saying I could boot an OpenPower off a standard install image.  It seems
> that this isn't true for the USB key as petiteboot doesn't know what to do
> with it.  Is my only choice to install from the cd/dvd images?
> 
> Best,
> Ali

From my experience, the only filesystem in common between
petitboot(linux) and FreeBSD is FAT.  So, yeah, you'd have to boot from
the CD.

I was able to netboot FreeBSD PPC from an NFS server (x86) after I
compiled a custom netboot kernel with the following added to GENERIC64:

options BOOTP
options BOOTP_NFSROOT
options BOOTP_COMPAT

sean

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