Re: Powerpc port
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Powerpc port
Hi there, On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:13 PM, K. Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ...snip... Yeah, the information about FreeBSD seems rather biased toward i386/amd64/IA64 and maybe the Alpha. At any rate the PowerPC is officially a tier-2 platform so there isn't as much support available. What you can do, though, is to get basic information like device node names and such from NetBSD. I got NetBSD 3.0 running on my PowerMac G4/533 more than a year ago, and it ran just about flawlessly (it had some problems shutting down, i.e. froze, but other than that there was nothing I could complain about). Some of the setup information, particularly with regards to how OpenFirmware interacts with the boot loader and boot devices, may be relevant. At any rate, NetBSD has had considerable experience porting the OS to the PowerPC platform so it's worth a try. Check out this (huge!) how-to at: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1/macppc/INSTALL.html Good luck, SC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Powerpc port
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
