From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 01:28:36 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 C510216A4CE; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 01:28:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from linda-2.paradise.net.nz (bm-2a.paradise.net.nz [202.0.58.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B8D43FBF; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 01:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp-1.paradise.net.nz (smtp-1a.paradise.net.nz [202.0.32.194]) by linda-2.paradise.net.nz (Paradise.net.nz) with ESMTP id <0HP700FIZMBKG5@linda-2.paradise.net.nz>; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:28:32 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from paradise.net.nz (203-96-145-217.adsl.paradise.net.nz [203.96.145.217]) by smtp-1.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FCB482762; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:28:32 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:22:45 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood In-reply-to: <3FCAFFAD.7020102@freebsd.org> To: Peter Grehan Message-id: <3FCB0865.4090601@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031008 References: <3FBC803E.9040900@paradise.net.nz> <3FBCC515.4080200@freebsd.org> <3FC921CA.1000306@paradise.net.nz> <3FC9B40F.2090500@freebsd.org> <3FCAF108.9080904@paradise.net.nz> <3FCAFCE6.7000702@paradise.net.nz> <3FCAFFAD.7020102@freebsd.org> cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project Status 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: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:28:37 -0000 Peter Grehan wrote: > > I think there's a binary mismatch between the new loader and > the syscons'd-kernel - "boot -s" works fine on an up-to-date > kernel. But at least there's workarounds - the other is to > "set boot_single=yes". hmm...that was the set option I was looking for...guess I didnt read the handbook carefully enough. > Don't forget to disable sendmail as per the instructions. I've > still to track down that problem. Also, with the openfirmware > console, full-screen editing really doesn't work. It's almost > better to edit the files offline, manually config the net interface > and ftp them across. Yep, sendmail all disabled. We are up multi-user - the networking even works. very cool. Now have to get bash and a few other things... Is it feasible to attempt a build of X at this stage? regards Mark