autobooting FreeBSD on Black Bird

[Michael Tuexen]

> On 6. Jul 2019, at 20:13, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 02:03:18PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>> Using these settings I would expect the system to boot FreeBSD
>> automatically after 5 seconds. This does not happen. The system
>> also tests for PXE boot although not configured above.
> 
> I just yesterday updated the wiki article:
> 
>  https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc/Raptor/Blackbird
> 
> based on my experiences with the new box sitting at my left elbow :-)
> So, it's possible to make it work.  Our settings appear _almost_
> identical.
> 
> OTOH that article still has the instructions I was given to set up
> remote access (at Integricloud).  So, I *did* do the 'ifconfig enP4p1s0f2'
> dance, whether or not it was neccessary.
I didn't download the image on the host, but on a separate computer and
then created a USB stick. However, this didn't work since I could not get
USB to work. So I used a DVD (after adding the DVD reader to the Black Bird)
and could install FreeBSD from there. FreeBSD also sees no USB at all.
Not sure why. But Ethernet is working.
> 
> So I would either try that, or set Network to "DHCP on a specific
> interface", which I think I had to specify, as well.
OK. I did that, but I still have to manually choose that I want to
boot FreeBSD.
> 
> Let me know what works for you and I will update the wiki article.
> I expect we will have more users joining us.
I hope that...

Best regards
Michael
> 
> mcl