From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 15:01:14 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 C8B5A106569C for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:01:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9DB8FC14 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:01:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) id <0K8H00M088E17500@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:01:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from trantor.tachypleus.net (ppp-70-226-171-21.dsl.mdsnwi.ameritech.net [70.226.171.21]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K8H00HGL8DY8D40@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:01:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:05:56 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <1223562121.15248.213.camel@horst-tla> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Horst_G=FCnther_Burkhardt_III?= Message-id: <48EE1DD4.8010906@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=70.226.171.21 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-13, Version=5.4.2.344556, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2008.10.9.144312, SenderIP=70.226.171.21 References: <1223562121.15248.213.camel@horst-tla> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080928) Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: The only box that can't mount its own install media. 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: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:01:14 -0000 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