I followed that guide and it did not work on my computer. OF wouldn’t recognize the thumb drive as a bootable medium — and I tried a bunch of different drives. That said, it’s certainly worth giving it a shot because it’s a lot simpler than TFTP/NFS. But after talking to some devs, it seems their experience was like mine: USB booting works on some Macs, but not others, hence the lack of official support.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 26, 2018, at 7:10 AM, Rino Rondan <rron...@itrestauracion.com.ar> > wrote: > > Yes, the link https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/macppc/INSTALL.macppc > did not said nothing about usb, but you can make dd of cd iso and use usb > disk like a disk with openfirmware > > boot ide1:,ofwboot /bsd (example) at least work me in > Ibook,powerbook,Macmini,Imac without any problem, you can use the printenv > variable of usb disk, or you can search with ls the device tree and put the > name of usb disk instead the printenv variable. I never try with Gcube.. > > > Regards > --- > Rino > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >> On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 8:31 AM, Daniel Boyd >> <danieljb...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Booting via USB isn’t officially supported, so your mileage may vary. I >> never could get it working on my G4 Cube (which has a dead CD drive). I >> ended up doing TFTP/NFS network booting which is officially supported. >> > >> Sent from my iPhone >> > >>> On Sep 26, 2018, at 5:16 AM, Rino Rondan rron...@itrestauracion.com.ar >>> wrote: >>> Lucas, which model do you have? You can install with usb , I did it , you >>> can start looking https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html, in the part of >>> installation you have the ways to do it . You need to use some command in >>> openfirmware to but the usb drive. Also you can prepare de image in the >>> disk drive too. >>> Regards >>> — >>> Rino >>> > >>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 6:46 AM, Lucas ostrogoth...@airmail.cc wrote: >>>> I recently got my hands on a 1.42GHZ Emac with a faulty disk drive, is it >>>> possible to use a usb or firewire external disk drive to install OpenBSD >>>> and if not is there another way to install OpenBSD on my Emac? >>>> Thanks. > <publickey - rron...@itrestauracion.com.ar - 0x2D1B9A57.asc>
