From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 13:54:39 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 8878A1065670 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:54:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EAA58FC15 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:54:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 011AD582D4; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:54:39 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id fyU8Xiv3VDYh; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:54:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (unknown [76.208.66.37]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D4B582CC; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:54:38 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4CB70B9E.5010505@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:54:38 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100925 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Super Bisquit References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How was the boot1.hfs file created? 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: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:54:39 -0000 On 10/14/10 06:43, Super Bisquit wrote: > I'd like to try the same for booting NetBSD and OpenBSD. > I've mounted the file and see that there is a ppc folder. Contained in the > file is the bootloader and a text info file. > I'm assuming the same can be done with Net/Open BSD using ofwboot.elf and > ofwboot.xcf. > The working system is linux: > I've used dd to create the 800(819)k image and have tried formatting using > hformat. > Now, I have a laptop with FreeBSD x86 on it and I can reinstall FreeBSD-ppc > on this- G4 Powermac- machine and create the boot volume here. > _______________________________________________ > 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" > boot1.hfs is created using some hfstools (hformat and friends). You can see how it's done at /sys/boot/powerpc/boot1.chrp -Nathan