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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:17:57 -0500
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: o power/93203 ppc FreeBSD PPC Can't Write to Partitions.
Message-ID:  <4BCD00C5.2050106@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2x7d6fde3d1004191742zae09d182jeccab895e4be2389@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04/19/10 19:42, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Super Biscuit<super_bisquit@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>    
>>   If you can get someone to port gpart from little endian to big endian, then it can be added to cd1 and boot-only. The code is dirty. I managed for the first header file to be built.
>>
>> Just throwing this out there.
>> And thanks for helping me with my problems on installing.
>>      
> This might be something to ask about on freebsd-geom as this sounds
> like a project worthy for other BE architectures like ARM (can be) and
> MIPS (can be).
>    

gpart actually works perfectly fine on big-endian systems, including 
PPC. It turns out it wasn't in the install CD mfsroot, and thus not 
accessible from the fixit shell, so I've put some new install CDs from 
today's -CURRENT here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/FreeBSD-9.0-20100418-SNAP-powerpc/

The directions at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ppcinstall.txt 
should then apply to real CDs that you can download. The addition of 
gpart will make it into 8.1-RELEASE as well.
-Nathan




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