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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:20:20 +1100
From:      Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org>
To:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: The only box that can't mount its own install media.
Message-ID:  <1223565620.15248.218.camel@horst-tla>
In-Reply-To: <1223562121.15248.213.camel@horst-tla>

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On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 01:22 +1100, 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.
> 
> 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. 
[...]
> 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 :)
> 
> Cheers. 
> 
>  -- Horst.

Disregard that, i suck ... CD spindles. 

I figured out the mount problem. 

media's mounted, now I need to figure out how the loader works. Any
volunteers to explain what drops where? (i'm using hfsutils, i have no
os x anymore) 

Also, is there any more "elegant" bootloader for PPC that could be
used? 

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