From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 02:23:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD0237B404 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 02:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C3C43FB1 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 02:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 42537 invoked from network); 21 May 2003 09:23:07 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 May 2003 09:23:07 -0000 Message-ID: <3ECB457B.60704@liwing.de> Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 11:23:07 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 (Compact - Build 2) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benno Rice References: <3EBFB8C3.7080302@liwing.de> <1052752640.648.25.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creating ppc-bootimage X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 09:23:11 -0000 On 5/12/2003 5:17 PM, Benno Rice wrote: > On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 01:07, Jens Rehsack wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> sorry for asking this, but I didn't found anything in tha handbook or in >> google how to create an cd-image (or sth. other usable) to setup my ppc >> machine with the freebsd ppc-port. >> >> I just re-activated an old p-Series workstation (43P-133) and want to >> install a freebsd on it to help the porters. Is their anywhere a >> snapshot or some instructions how to create sth. what I can use? > > Given the Mac-centric nature of the port at the moment I'm not sure how > well it'd go booting on an IBM system. I'd offer to look into making it > work if you could provide a serial console and a system to netboot it > from but I'm having enough trouble making time to work on the port in > general at the moment. Ok, now I've found my serial cable and I have several BSD-Systems (i386+) around it. I assume I had to compile kernel/world for use on powerpc but I didn't find any target flags like I found on 4.x. Is there a documentation/howto available so that I don't had to ask any stupid question? > If you're willing to get your hands dirty I'd be happy to try to help > you as much as I can to get it running yourself... I'm on start position :-) Jens