From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 16 16:02:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8D61065675 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:02:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F278FC24 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:02:14 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0L5N00200R7PU500@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:02:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [10.0.2.99] ([unknown] [76.210.64.28]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0L5N00H3WR7HPG80@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:02:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:02:11 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: Bryan Vyhmeister Message-id: <93D37FE3-8D8D-4780-9170-AEE9413C03A2@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.64.28 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-10, Version=5.5.9.395186, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2010.7.16.155415, SenderIP=76.210.64.28 References: <20100713164320.40351367@anacreon.physics.wisc.edu> <8E571810-53D4-45CC-9A47-06DD3F44C97B@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT 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, 16 Jul 2010 16:02:15 -0000 On Jul 16, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Nathan Whitehorn > wrote: >> >> You can install the boot loader from the fixit shell on disc1 (see >> the guide >> at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ppcinstall.txt using gpart >> from the >> fixit shell). The livefs should show up as HFS so that you can boot >> from it. >> This sounds very much like some kind of timing issue in the SATA >> driver. > > That's exactly what I tried to do and I followed those instructions. I > just get the error that /boot/boot1.hfs can't be found. Is it in a > different path? I tried /mnt and /mnt2 but without ls I can't tell > what's in a given directory. I'd be happy to test anything. > > Bryan Ah, right. It's on the CD root (which is in /mnt?), not the MFS root. -Nathan