From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 7 16:42:54 2007 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 486DC16A46B for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:42:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from voltechs@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA76A13C4BF for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:42:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from voltechs@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so2999443waf for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:42:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=lMuU6z/h0I3QfSbp0M78WNBlp4PRWeC2Qs/b0n8g9Pg=; b=VaoDWypF2FJUSJYFi3Tmm3qTKYMxgQBF7EMueolmQfxyY07pBFqS9PFFxoAqi9rhx+hPwKSn3j7OvKHaqw73LeQ7vgMk9CZdlXHEI/P59Zvqmr0LXUj89Chb3H0UyxXrh8cGpEE+5FMynTt3VYJNHAU756JxJYZ7WjdI/diBwpA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Kcpfsjju8uaNj/QTYiE65HKqamqh7CBueiHBK2yajUkii97pvF4GcCvxkW8DYH/0JFYXhT2uAjZqKT2C+SM/BTl+IQ69/NE07He43WbOAldQIQDNmxsQYrMqOrIwcPKwfnY6Do2plturWT9gj5iFpE29PaVvpSRccYrIw0YEG4Y= Received: by 10.114.151.13 with SMTP id y13mr1940493wad.1194453764341; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:42:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.39.7 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:42:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8b25751b0711070842s3991b2d2yc1443e5067605508@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:42:44 -0800 From: "Robin Stevens" To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4730C384.1000807@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8b25751b0711051115t4e592458n929b57ee021467b1@mail.gmail.com> <4730C384.1000807@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4) 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: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:42:54 -0000 Hello again. Thank you all for your help! When I got home, I reformatted my drives, and partitioned into 3 sections: swap UFS root HSF+ Mac OS X Extended+Journalized. well, needless to say, that didn't seem to work. After it was all installed, I couldn't mount those partitions from OS X. The weird thing was that I couldn't mount root. Swap seemed to be ok. So, I went into Disk Utility, and wiped root. Made sure it was still HSF+, and rebooted. I tried installing FreeBSD again, and it went smoothly. When I came back into OS X, there was nothing in root. It was completely empty. Why!!?!? I mean, the installation went all the way through. How could it be empty? Grr this is frustrating. I tried the same thing with Peter's miniinstall, 6.2, and 7.0 -SNAPSHOT. Same results. What am I possibly doing wrong? I tried pretty much every combination between UFS and HSF+. Thanks guys :) -- Robin On 11/6/07, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Robin, > > > Partitions: > > 4.00 MBs of HSF+ (Mac OS Extended) for /boot > > 256.00 MBs of HSF+ (Mac OS Extended) for swap > > *.00 GBs of HSF+ (Mac OS Extended) for / (root) > > > > So I'll have three partitions. I think that should be enough. > > I use an OSX install to re-partition a system, and to set up OSX so > that I can boot into that, and also use that to copy the FreeBSD loader > to the root directory so it can be read from the loader. > > > I've got 6.2 iso on a CD-R, and I'll be booting off that from the mac > > (either with the 'C' key or via OpenFirmware) > > That's the next step once the re-partitioning has been done. > > > Once there, I will follow the instructions on screen, and partition ( > > apparently I do it again here? I'm not sure, maybe its just telling > > FreeBSD which partitions to use ) my / (root). > > That's right. The fastest way is to dump all the filesystems onto a > single disk partition, and use another one for swap. Much like what you > have above without the /boot partition. > > > Then I guess I need to drop down into 'disklabel' and tell it to use > > my swap partition as the swap. I'm not sure how to accomplish this > > without interrupting the installation process. Tips/explainations on > > this would be great. > > Shouldn't need to do that: the partition can be marked as 'swap' in > sysinstall. > > > What do you all think? > > Let us know how it goes. I think I have the exact same config (400MHz > G4), so should be able to help out if there are any h/w issues. > > later, > > Peter. >