Dear charlène, Thank you for your quick reply, really appreciated :)
I'm sorry but I fail to see the additional steps required to make this work: 0 > dev / ls ff9b1200: /usb@1b, 1 ff9e3c20: /disk@1 0 > devalias ud /pci@f2000000/usb@1b, 1/disk@1 0 > boot ud/disk@1:2,ofwboot /6.9/macppc/bsd.rd can't OPEN: ud/disk@1:2,ofwboot Can't open device or file ok 0> Could the root issue come instead from the USB drive ? Maybe my dd command is faulty or I'm not using the right ISO file... Best regards, Samuel > Hi, > > You will need some additional steps to do so, see > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ppc&m=155231977928919&q=mbox > > Charlène. > > On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:04:15 +0200 > "Samuel VISCAPI" <samuel.visc...@no-log.org> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> First post on this mailing-list :) >> >> I attempted yesterday to install OpenBSD 6.9 on an iBook G4 / >> PowerBook 6,7 (currently running MorphOS) with an USB drive. I >> downloaded this image: >> https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.9/macppc/install69.iso and >> dd'ed it on GNU/Linux Debian 11 x86_64 to a working USB drive with >> the following command: >> >> dd if=/path/to/install69.iso of=/dev/sda >> >> Once the image properly copied to the USB drive I then inserted it in >> a free USB port on the iBook G4. I booted the laptop up holding >> ALT+APPLE+O+F down to enter Open Firmware. I believe my USB drive to >> be aliased as "ud" in Open Firmware, so I tried to boot using this >> command: >> >> boot ud:,ofwboot /6.9/macppc/bsd.rd >> >> But unfortunately it didn't work. What did I do wrong ? >> >> Best regards, >> >> Samuel >> > >
