Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:05:56 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Horst_G=FCnther_Burkhardt_III?= <horst@sxemacs.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The only box that can't mount its own install media. Message-ID: <48EE1DD4.8010906@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1223562121.15248.213.camel@horst-tla> References: <1223562121.15248.213.camel@horst-tla>
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Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote: > I realise that this email may sound like a bad joke. Believe me it is > not. > > I would like to know i can boot into BSD without needing a CD to boot > from, before I start building my world. > > To this end I attempted to set up the bootloader as instructed earlier > (boot.tbxi) by simply copying it to the root of the HFS partition. It > would appear however that my computer will have none of that. You need both boot.tbxi and loader on the HFS partition. > So, next thing to try is copying /boot/loader from the CD to /loader on > the HFS partition, as i was also instructed by another ML user. > > ... The FreeBSD cd won't mount. It just says : > > invalid argument > > when I try to specify a mountpoint, as such: > > # mount /dev/acd0 /mnt/cdrom This is because the file system is wrong (hence invalid argument). mount defaults to UFS, and the CD is not a UFS file system. You want mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom. I'd suggest reading the handbook or the mount manpage for this kind of thing, since it is not PowerPC-specific. > if the command > > # mount /dev/acd0 > > is used, the box simply does nothing, but on the otehr hand doesn't > report an error. quaint, no? If the device is listed in /etc/fstab, you want to use the mountpoint instead of the device name. E.g. mount /cdrom. > Also, to whoever shouted out earlier about improved UDMA support in the > kernel, can I have links to the relevant downloads? I'm going to rebuild > this thing anyhow so I may as well use the niceties :) It is in -CURRENT right now, waiting on some residual bugs to be merged into 7-STABLE. -Nathan
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