Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:43:08 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bootloader installation Message-ID: <20081007194308.GA1268@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <48EB821B.80503@freebsd.org> References: <1223393073.15248.151.camel@horst-tla> <48EB821B.80503@freebsd.org>
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--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:36:59AM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Horst G=FCnther Burkhardt III wrote: > >I have installed FreeBSD, thanks to Richard for suggesting Finnix for > >partitioning, it did the job brilliantly. > >=20 > >... Where the hell is the bootloader? I can't find it anywhere, and thus > >don't know what to do with the 64MB HFS+ i set aside for it. :( > > > >Any help would be appreciated. Once again.=20 > > > >My apologies for being horridly noobish here. > > -- Horst. >=20 > It is /boot/loader. There is a boot.tbxi that you can install too (and=20 > find in /usr/src/release/powerpc) that will let you use the OF boot menu= =20 > to select FreeBSD if you are dual-booting. >=20 > We really need to make installation work better. Can we include a port=20 > of Apple's HFS implementation in base? I know APSL1 was impossible, but= =20 > are there any thoughts on APSL2 now? Having HFS support should also be=20 > valuable on x86 with more people dual-booting FreeBSD/OS X now. >=20 > I suppose that writing a simple write-only HFS implementation should not= =20 > be too hard, either. Maybe this could be hooked into gpart bootcode? > -Nathan > _______________________________________________ Take a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~yar for an old hfs port from the 5.x days. Unfortunately it never made it into the base system, maybe someone here would like to pick it up? - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFI67vMbHYXjKDtmC0RApuIAKDYURtUGC5apqxun4VpzrSeXdYaeACfV2mS NAfWUMZCT3B+JLsmo/iaEEw= =xpDr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--
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