From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 16:18:01 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 B27A91065675 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:18:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from super_bisquit@yahoo.com) Received: from web110115.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (web110115.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [67.195.8.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E1058FC25 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:18:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 43734 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Apr 2010 15:51:21 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1271778681; bh=aJm/4MCWsy2xyw8/5MFATf4Bd1tZzPBMhvPPBaXscis=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=MbR6oo1nJGbMJv1slqjIc3MVaR7Gms/ueu5daQ4yGdy6KNXRBAFjAuCYrAxbyueL7gicW1LrovakLDjDuhHSuuKDFuVoJ3RRJJbnlMGr2TbrH0kIyiZWrc6kk4MwDZef1q0ohQophn3EvQJ+UKJsTraI8Z7z9MyknDLDKsUqNbo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=yUxwWXaNlV9YlXr9jCWvrgkcl0287Idgjy4twRPplO7XWnp6IWf/efJQt9H/UnSwtLn/wyzmfwr51IRaFsFfAjfuquNFaUCiL66CnnuzXQvZVaYz4l8UoTpI0Drj9ff06UDdQA2172qE52NfMEYrA2r1MR4PKtj9VMY3lMbCeMM=; Message-ID: <591485.43362.qm@web110115.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: lz3iOqkVM1n6zv3ddA02If0MyttZzNPCsff0CR5WHThrUS9 FugWKAlfW Received: from [71.200.56.84] by web110115.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:51:20 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/10.1.9 YahooMailWebService/0.8.102.267879 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:51:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Super Biscuit To: Nathan Whitehorn In-Reply-To: <4BCD00C5.2050106@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org 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 16:18:01 -0000 Now that's some killer news. --- On Tue, 4/20/10, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: From: Nathan Whitehorn Subject: Re: o power/93203 ppc FreeBSD PPC Can't Write to Partitions. To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 1:17 AM On 04/19/10 19:42, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Super Biscuit= =A0 wrote: >=A0 =A0=20 >>=A0=A0=A0If you can get someone to port gpart from little endian to big e= ndian, then it can be added to cd1 and boot-only. The code is dirty. I mana= ged for the first header file to be built. >>=20 >> Just throwing this out there. >> And thanks for helping me with my problems on installing. >>=A0 =A0 =A0=20 > 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). >=A0 =A0=20 gpart actually works perfectly fine on big-endian systems, including PPC. I= t turns out it wasn't in the install CD mfsroot, and thus not accessible fr= om 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 shou= ld then apply to real CDs that you can download. The addition of gpart will= make it into 8.1-RELEASE as well. -Nathan _______________________________________________ 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" =0A=0A=0A