K. Bradford wrote:
I have installed 7.0-RELEASE on an old Mac G4.
I have cvs'ed the latest sources (using the RELENG_7 tag)
in order to track 7.0-STABLE.
The problem: I can boot only off the FreeBSD install CD,
by breaking into open firmware upon bootup like this:
0 > boot mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:,\boot\boot.tbxi
Open firmware loads this boot loader which then automagically
loads and runs the FreeBSD loader. Then, I interrupt using the
space bar to get to the loader prompt and explicitly set the
root device to be the hard drive partition.
OK set rootdev=mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3
(My FreeBSD root partition is 3).
Kernel boots up, mounts / off the hard drive and the system
runs fine.
Can someone advise me how to set up everything correctly
on the hard drive so I don't have to jump through all these hoops?
I'm guessing boot.tbxi is needed somewhere under /boot,
but I don't think open firmware can read a BSD partition anyway.
Documentation on the powerpc port seems sparse. Could
someone please point me in the right direction, or provide
brief instructions here. As always, any help/advice is greatly
appreciated.
Since Open Firmware doesn't understand UFS you have two options - you
can either use the CD as a first-stage loader, or use an OS X partition
to boot from. Since I got rid of my OS X partition when I installed
FreeBSD on my G4 I use the first option. The simplest way is to just
leave the CD in the drive and type:
> boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:3
There are more instructions about booting Macs at
http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt
--
Bruce
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