From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 22:44:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8121816A42A; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:44:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from speedfactory.net (mail5.speedfactory.net [66.23.216.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424E343DA0; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:44:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (unverified [66.23.211.162]) by speedfactory.net (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 1544490 for multiple; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:46:04 -0500 Received: from localhost.baldwin.cx (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jA7MhuH4019473; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:43:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: Peter Grehan Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:43:56 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <436CB6EB.4080402@freebsd.org> <200511071141.16445.jhb@freebsd.org> <436FCD0F.2010704@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <436FCD0F.2010704@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511071743.57482.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on server.baldwin.cx X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=1653887525 Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-snap available 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: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:44:40 -0000 On Monday 07 November 2005 04:54 pm, Peter Grehan wrote: > > >I even suspect the same would happen on i386. > > > > No, it isn't. > > OK, I'm happy to stand corrected. > > > probably because GEOM thinks that something else has ad1s5 open > > still. Might be a bug in the ppc libdisk bits maybe? > > More likely the GEOM apple partition code. Perhaps a reference count > being held when it shouldn't. But it's all moot until the loader has > support for a partitioning scheme - 'auto' will be disabled. > > So John when are you going to install on your Powerbook ? :) Heh, when I can figure out a way to partition the disk up. I guess I'd need to reinstall tiger to layout all the partitions, etc. Having the built-in keyboard work would be an added incentive. :) It sure gets better battery life than my current freebsd luggable. (45 minutes without wireless if I'm lucky, more like 15 with wireless) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org