Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1275 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:
>
devaliasNow 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=USBBoot.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.....