From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 02:02:57 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 26982106568D for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 02:02:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu) Received: from beta.eecs.cwru.edu (beta.EECS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.150.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB61F8FC0C for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 02:02:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu) Received: from narn.knownspace ([::ffff:69.140.221.138]) (AUTH: PLAIN jrh29, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,168bits,DES-CBC3-SHA) by beta.eecs.cwru.edu with esmtp; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:02:55 -0400 id 000AC52D.48E971CF.000066DD Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 22:02:51 -0400 From: Justin Hibbits To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081006020251.GA1128@narn.knownspace> References: <1222945436.15248.103.camel@horst-tla> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1222945436.15248.103.camel@horst-tla> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: Re: Extreme difficulty with partitioning on mac powerpc g4. 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: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:02:57 -0000 On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:03:56PM +1000, Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote: > a) Is there a known workaround? > ` - b) If there is, why are there no docs anywhere on the internet? > ` - c) If (following either assistance or dumb luck) I get it > working, would a "walkthrough" be welcomed? (see lack of docs) > |- d) If no known workaround, are there any suggestions from the ppc > devs and users on this ML? > > Extra info: this is a Power Mac G4 (ADC/Gigabit Ethernet) with two > harddrives: one 40GB and one 60GB. > > My intended partition layout is: > > /---------------- > IDE0 Master: 40GB > ----------------- > Partition 0: (smallest amount possible) (whatever's needed to allow > autoboot into FreeBSD, I've > nuked OS X) > > Partition 1: (the remainder) FreeBSD UFS2, mountpoint / > > > > IDE0 Slave : 60GB > ----------------- > Partition 0: 2GB FreeBSD swap > Partition 1: 58GB FreeBSD UFS2, mountpoint /usr > \---------------- I don't think partitioning is supported on ppc yet. Better to use the OS X Disk Utility, or another PPC partitioner before installing FreeBSD. > --Horst. - Justin