Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:51:47 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Horst=20G=FCnther=20Burkhardt=20III?= <horst@sxemacs.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The only box that can't mount its own install media. Message-ID: <20081010055147.EJZ19410@dommail.onthenet.com.au>
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Hi Horst, >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) You'll want to copy the loader, and also a "tbxi" text file to the root directory of the HFS partition. The contents of the tbxi file can be derived from a couple of places - the FreeBSD release CD uses one: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/release/powerpc/boot.tbxi?revision=133950&view=markup .. and replace the boot line with the partition that your kernel is on. Then, in OpenFirmware, set auto-boot? to true, boot-device to the disk, partition and file e.g. 0 > setenv boot-device hd:9,\boot.tbxi (after doing a test boot with 'boot hd:9,\boot.tbxi :) 0 > reset-all ... will save the env var and hopefully autoboot into FreeBSD. >Also, is there any more "elegant" bootloader for PPC that >could be used? I'd like to hope that Oliver Fromme's graphical loader work could be ported to the ppc/ofw loader. Here's a screen shot: http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/vloader/screenshot.png later, Peter.
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