From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 20:13:11 2008 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 433A1106568F; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:13:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39E88FC1B; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:13:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0K8D00BMDW3X65A0@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de>; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:43:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smarthost-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO smarthost.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.90]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:43:09 +0200 Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by smarthost.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id m97Jh94V017268; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:43:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92]) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KnISa-0007R9-W6; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:43:09 +0200 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id ABFC83F433; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:43:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:43:08 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <48EB821B.80503@freebsd.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn Message-id: <20081007194308.GA1268@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-disposition: inline X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,374,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="85618316" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.4-PRERELEASE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <1223393073.15248.151.camel@horst-tla> <48EB821B.80503@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: bootloader installation 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: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:13:11 -0000 --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--