From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 20:43:59 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 AAE8D16A41C; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:43:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from saturnero@freesbie.org) Received: from jail1-fbsd4.consiagnet.it (jail1-fbsd4.consiagnet.it [83.149.128.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CBB43D53; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:43:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from saturnero@freesbie.org) Received: by jail1-fbsd4.consiagnet.it (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 07324584B; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 22:44:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 22:44:07 +0200 From: Dario Freni To: Peter Grehan Message-ID: <20050701204406.GA89744@cvs.freesbie.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE (What else? ;) X-Sent-From: cvs.freesbie.org X-GPG-Key: http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: 9C23 3CED 32A4 1E6E 7F83 042F CA68 BBD8 8892 872B User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini) 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: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:43:59 -0000 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 08:03:49AM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote: > >Hi guys, I've just installed FreeBSD on an external hard drive. You > >know, I was too lazy to reformat everything, so I recycled an old 6Gig > >harddrive thanks to an external box. You can find a mini-guide at: > > > >http://tinyurl.com/b7s8u >=20 > Great work Dario ! I'm looking forward to the FreeSBIE/ppc live CD :) Just made the first boot :) A small report: - previously, we used to add 32Mb to the mfsroot size normally required. Apparently OpenFirmware didn't like this. Here is the loader output: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel data=3D0x34a094+0x52208 syms=3D[0x4+0x49672] / [rotating some seconds] Invalid memory access at %SRR0: 01c18620 %SRR1: 00083030 Then the OpenFirmware prompt again. Resolved by removing the exceeding 32Mb. - usually we extensively use md memory fs union-mounted on compressed fs for /usr, /var and /root. Keeping this behaviour atm results on an instantaneous reboot apparently on the "Creating/trimming log files" phase during the init. I'm not sure about this because, as I said, the reboot is fast, no panic and no freeze. I temporarily resolved removing the unionfs, but I really want to make this work. Are there still problems with unionfs on recent -currents?=20 --=20 Dario Freni (saturnero@freesbie.org) FreeSBIE developer (http://www.freesbie.org) GPG Public key at http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCxasWymi72IiShysRAriBAJ9mKvTqOZezyhsOPBAOIEskBujexwCfb+qt u9BSiWe+WWUHpzON/5fhxZk= =GDq5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--