• Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    Amigaharry2
    Posts: 1283 from 2010/1/6
    From: EU-Austria (Wien)
    Did'nt read now all of that above, but: There are some firmwares on G5 which cannot read sticks bigger than 4GB!! Not only partitions - the whole stick must not have more than 4GB. And even than, some sticks are'nt readable (seems to depend of "firmware" in the stick itself....)

    If you have a smaller one, just format it FAT and copy something on it (just for test). Then plug it to the front-port of the G5 and turn him on.
    In OpenFirmware-Console type:
    >devalias

    Now device ud should be listed with following path: ht@0/f2000000/pci@4/usb@b,1/disk@1
    (If only one massstore USB-device is plugged in!!). If your path is different, please post it. This will be strange, because path is hardcoded to usb-port.

    If it occours then type:

    dir ud:\

    -> the content of ud should be listed!

    If this does'nt work, your stick may be "incompatible" - some sticks won't work, anyway the have 4GB or less..... you have to try another one, or better a USB-HD. To my experience HDs work in most cases and does'nt depend on over-all size (but first partition <4GB).

    If you don't see ud-device in devalias-list, then it's a bit more tricky, but there is also a way to acces a usb-port.
    Please post your firmware-version
    If everything above works, we can try to prepare stick for booting.

    If nothing works, there is a way to start boot.img via tftp-server (running on a PC):

    Copy boot.img to your tftp-server. Format a USB-Stick with SFS (FAT should also work) and copy the content of MorphOS-ISO (not the iso itself) on it and plug it to G5.

    boot in OF on MAC:

    > enet:<IP of server>, boot.img BD=USB

    Boot.img will be loaded and kernel starts. MorphOS includes a USB-stack and is able to boot the rest from every usb-device (finds the right USB automaticaly).





    [ Editiert durch Amigaharry2 13.09.2024 - 09:15 ]
    Peg2, 3xPowerMac G5, 2xPowerbookG4, 2x MacMiniG4, Efika (again), A3000T and life is never boring.....
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