Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:54:13 +0200 From: fbsd23@sol42.com To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD/powerpc from external FireWire drive? Message-ID: <D3A91DA5-33F8-4BA3-B7F2-77C10CE140A5@sol42.com> In-Reply-To: <40D5CC15-8828-4CFD-AE13-2211B9742AE2@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <40D5CC15-8828-4CFD-AE13-2211B9742AE2@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On 1 Oct 2010, at 17:44, Paul Mather wrote: > Can anyone help me figure out the appropriate OpenFirmware command to = boot FreeBSD from the external FW drive? The "devalias" command reports = I have "fw" and "fwx" aliases, which I presume refer to FireWire. Alas, = I can't fathom what the boot command arguments would be. I followed the = gpart partitioning scheme listed in the FreeBSD/powerpc install = instructions at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ppcinstall.txt = with an 800K apple-boot partition as the first one in the APM. Hello there. This is what I do to boot 8.1 on a Mac mini G4 from a USB = disk: 1) press Alt+Command+O+F when booting to get to the OpenFirmware prompt 2) type "boot cd:,\boot\loader ud:N" where N is your FreeBSD root = filesystem partition; you need the install CD-ROM for this you'll have to type "fw" instead of "ud" which is the first USB disk if you copy /boot/loader from the CD to the root of the Mac OS X = disk, you can type "boot hd:\loader ud:N" instead (and need no CD to boot) 3) IF mounting root fails because the FireWire disk is not detected yet = (this happens to me every time, the "set hw.usb.ehci.no_hs=3D1" trick = doesn't work for me), type "ufs:/dev/da0sN" (same N as above) after the ROOT MOUNT = ERROR message and the system will come up as usual Regards. -Daniel=
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