Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:51:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Super Biscuit <super_bisquit@yahoo.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: o power/93203 ppc FreeBSD PPC Can't Write to Partitions. Message-ID: <591485.43362.qm@web110115.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4BCD00C5.2050106@freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Now that's some killer news. --- On Tue, 4/20/10, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> 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<super_bisquit@yahoo.com>= =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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?591485.43362.qm>