From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 01:18:01 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 F1C87106566B for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:18:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50688FC0C for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:18:01 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0L1500L0UIA1UH00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:18:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.66.137]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0L1500L1LI9XRY00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:17:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:17:57 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-id: <4BCD00C5.2050106@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.66.137 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-9, Version=5.5.5.374460, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.1.369594, Antispam-Data: 2010.4.20.10616, SenderIP=76.210.66.137 References: <816545.89999.qm@web110112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100407 Thunderbird/3.0.4 Subject: Re: o power/93203 ppc FreeBSD PPC Can't Write to Partitions. 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: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:18:02 -0000 On 04/19/10 19:42, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Super Biscuit 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