From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 17:31:28 2010 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 145B3106564A for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:31:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richard.delaurell@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF8F8FC13 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so1074536wwa.13 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:31:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=SECaADORmKJRf02MDxwnAUp2qvKymLXNZpRIsSWZytU=; b=WEv5yD08x+OCABlH1zIrybKSKipnO4bVevJbEKff/W/GfdALYMwiJ7au+LGKNQ1q8O KTe1FgjLUMkxLSkNL0tnxRB6JNjMTCefXQ2izqbZbjs68CXWHlAJSGlTGMU6nlwNZook NL1kb8Wu4WFunG2+2B2rHBZBvJO7VZ3dZsww0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=OZMkyzFGI8Tq3Bd8vqv6GdOimgXuHv5a3c23gdMai43PKW3QuL5Mh9oQQeWQZauDPY xGdygM+Arrd7nr+R8/B93I0qKM7f0qMqpdMF9Y/GFZ2rab7TddDMEw7HVxCgkY6pVXiu c1dSjNmDK84TMmYEhvHVJ1WC/OHGB/O8bpBOE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.18.79 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:00:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <442536.36074.qm@web110105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <442536.36074.qm@web110105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:00:35 -0500 Received: by 10.216.89.12 with SMTP id b12mr364232wef.93.1271350835680; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Richard DeLaurell To: Super Biscuit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Powermac B&W G3 install status and questions 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, 15 Apr 2010 17:31:28 -0000 I am working from memory here, but I believe your boot command should look something like this: boot hd:#,\\:tbxi # is (I believe) the disk partition you're booting from; that should be the location of your tbxi file. This would be if you placed the tbxi file in the base directory on the #th partition of your 1st hard drive. As I say, this is from memory since my G3 died quite a while ago. I am sorry if this is not helpful. Good luck-- Richard DeLaurell On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Super Biscuit wrote: > I've been able to install 8.0 powerpc to a G3 with 384M RAM. > Apologies beforehand, there are a few questions. > What is the open firmware command for booting? > Mac-boot repeats a bad partition error. > Should I have created a /boot partition? > Currently, only a base system is installed. > > Will it be better to use an older release? > > If you need the system stats, I can post them. It will have to be done > through a Linux dmesg output. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >