From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 31 13:38:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org 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 66C9516A41F for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:38:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lazeros@actcom.net.il) Received: from smtp2.actcom.co.il (smtp2.actcom.co.il [192.114.47.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFEA943D78 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:38:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lazeros@actcom.net.il) Received: from [192.168.2.100] (l192-117-115-163.broadband.actcom.net.il [192.117.115.163]) by smtp2.actcom.co.il (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6VDcaBu021725 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:38:40 +0300 From: gil verthaim To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:38:34 +0300 Message-Id: <1122817114.5873.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: free failes to load cleanly from yaboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:38:43 -0000 this might not be a freebsd problem at all... i used yaboot 1.3.13 which runs from a linux partition to init the loader file from a yaboot boot partition using a cheap hack to link symbolically link the loader file to a fictional ofwboot file which yaboot accepts as a bsd loader (it is the netbsd loader) like so: ln -s /usr/local/lib/yaboot/loader /usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot when i enter the yaboot boot menu and select the bsd option yaboot locates the original loader file and begins the boot but when the init script get to the point where its mounts the root partition in multi-user it fails to find the partition and falls back to the mountroot> prompt witch in turn fails to find the root partition when directed manually (e.g ufs:/dev/ad0s11). as i said this might be a yaboot bug or just a misuse in my part but i just want to let you know cheers gil verthaim From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 00:43:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org 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 2107716A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 00:43:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from liberty.onthenet.com.au (liberty.OntheNet.com.au [203.22.124.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C7F43D49 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 00:43:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from [203.144.2.167] (CPE-2-167.dsl.OntheNet.net [203.144.2.167]) by liberty.onthenet.com.au (8.12.9 - 20030918/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j710gw7v087398; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:42:59 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <42ED7021.3050905@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:43:13 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gil verthaim References: <1122817114.5873.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1122817114.5873.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free failes to load cleanly from yaboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:43:17 -0000 Hi Gil, > as i said this might be a yaboot bug or just a misuse in my part but i > just want to let you know I strongly suspect that yaboot and loader conflict in their use of address space, whereas NetBSD's ofwboot is linked at a lower address and won't bother yaboot. later, Peter.