Amigaharry2 wrote:
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 ]