From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 12:13:31 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 6ABA516A4B3 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post4.inre.asu.edu (post4.inre.asu.edu [129.219.113.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D9843FEC for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:13:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from emma@webmail2.asu.edu) Received: from conversion.post4.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.2-X17 #30769) id <0HME00001IMGSO@asu.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:11:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from webmail2.asu.edu (webmail2.asu.edu [129.219.117.231]) by asu.edu (PMDF V6.2-X17 #30769) with ESMTP id <0HME00LKMIMGHC@asu.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:11:04 -0700 (MST) Received: (from emma@localhost) by webmail2.asu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h97JB4tU013531; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:11:04 -0700 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:11:04 -0700 (MST) From: James Sarrett In-reply-to: <3F82B069.9040905@liwing.de> X-Originating-IP: 129.219.151.91 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-id: <1065553864.3f830fc86794f@webmail.asu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.3 References: <3F7C08B9.6080803@liwing.de> <3F7D1D7E.11616929@freebsd.org> <3F7D1F45.7060004@liwing.de> <3F81438B.331EC2A5@freebsd.org> <3F8147BF.5030606@liwing.de> <3F8290CC.3F507979@freebsd.org> <3F82B069.9040905@liwing.de> Subject: Re: Initially setting up power pc 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: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:13:31 -0000 Just as a point of clarification, the 43p is not typical of the rs/6000 line. the 43p and several others do use OpenFirmware, but the RS/6000 line has had many diffrent HAL's including ARC and a weird IBM one for the RISCPC series. -James Quoting Jens Rehsack : > Peter Grehan wrote: > > Hi Jens, > > > > > >>Hm, I could start a research if setting up harddisk is definitively > >>impossible. What I'm currently interested in is, how do I labeling > >>the disk to get started? > > > > > > Sorry, I don't know what format disks should be on IBM rs/6k > machines. > > > > > >>>>Linux/PPC runs fine, since 2000. > >>> > >>>OK, that should at least give you a start wrt to how to bootstrap the > system. > >> > >>wrt? > >>Don't understood. > > > > > > Linux already has the boot process working on this machine, so if you > can > > work out how it occurs (e.g. what OpenFirmware commands are needed, > what > > format the loader is in etc), it should help in understanding what is > needed > > to get FreeBSD to boot. > > The loader is the same as for PowerMacs. At least, it's documented > that way in the manual. So creating an cd-image for PowerMac should > work with the 43p machines (and above). > > Jens > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --- "Never trust a man who can count to 1024 on his fingers." ---