PowerMac G4 booting from memstick image

[Mehul Sanghvi]

How did you write the ISO to the USB ?  What I see in the forums says not to do such a thing.


cheers,

    mehul
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Mehul Sanghvi
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> On Apr 19, 2021, at 19:10 , Alfredo Dal'Ava Júnior <alfredo at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mehul,
> 
> It's in the FreeBSD loader but it looks like something is wrong with the kernel, it should be loading it at this point. 
> 
> Did you try release 13.0? Please write the USB stick with disc1.iso instead, that's how I booted/installed on by G4 last time. 
> 
> []'s
> Alfredo
> 
> Em seg., 19 de abr. de 2021 19:56, Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi at gmail.com> escreveu:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I am trying to boot FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE from a USB stick which had the memstick image on it.
> 
>    I can get to the OF boot prompt, but how do I boot from there ?  
> 
>    The USB stick is located at the devalias usb0 as far as I can tell.
> 
>    What would the boot command be ?  Looking at https://i.redd.it/0ypv6vmi63231.jpg it seems I need some arguments, but I don’t know where or how to find them.
> 
>     The Handbook has instructions on how to create a memstick.img but nothing that I could find regarding how to boot from it.
> 
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
>     mehul
> 
> 
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> Mehul Sanghvi
> mehul.sanghvi at gmail.com
> 
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> 
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