From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 03:49:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org 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 97BA516A41C; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 03:49:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D0043D45; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 03:49:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j653ngxT005848; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 23:49:43 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <2e583cb2.155ae389.819d300@dommail.onthenet.com.au> References: <2e583cb2.155ae389.819d300@dommail.onthenet.com.au> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 23:49:41 -0400 To: Peter Grehan From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.3 Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini) 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, 05 Jul 2005 03:49:45 -0000 At 1:18 PM +1000 7/2/05, Peter Grehan wrote: > > At this point with FreeBSD/PPC 6.0-RELEASE happening we > > can't stick our heads in the sand anymore. What type of > > labels do we support and which non-Sysinstall programs > > does one use when adding a 2nd disk to their system? > >Sysinstall for FreeBSD/PPC only understands APM partitions, >though you should be able to manually create GPT partitions. > >My (unrealised) plan for APM partition editing was to pull >in pdisk. One of the reasons to create partitions is to split up a huge disk so it can be used by different operating systems. In my case, I'd like to set up my Mac-mini so it could boot up MacOS, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD. For that I pretty much need FreeBSD to support APM-style partitions, because the other OS's aren't going to support alternate partitioning schemes. I haven't had the time to try an OpenBSD install yet, but it looks like it takes a single large APM-style partition, and then it knows how to split that up for the separate partitions that it might want. Could we do that with GPT-style partitions, instead of a single APM-stype partition? For PPC on Apple hardware, we already need to have the boot-loader to be sitting on a HFS+ partition (since open-firmware can not read our partition formats). What is the issue with using GPT-style partitions for boot-disks? Is it in finding the boot-loader, or is it the boot-loader itself which has no support for GPT? Would there be less of an issue on PPC since file for the boot-loader itself would not need to be on a GPT-style partition? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu