Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:22:32 -0500 From: "Richard DeLaurell" <richard.delaurell@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: imac rev D 7.0 rel booting issue Message-ID: <4324dbec0807311822r287e5073h890918173e61a4bc@mail.gmail.com>
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I have just joined this list and don't know if this is an appropriate place to ask, nor am I aware of any archive to search to see if my question has been "asked-and-answered" already. I have installed 7.0 Release for ppc on an iMac 333 rev D. My first five partitions are the required mac hd drivers; the sixth is mac os9. It is also where I keep the boot loader file and kernel for the NetBSD 2.0.2, that which resides on partitions 7-10. Mac os9 takes up about 3g, and NB2 maybe 10g on my hd. I installed FreeBSD 7 on partitions 11-16; those begin at 11g. I copied the "boot" file from the install cd to the top directory of the os9 (as I did for NB2), however, when I try to boot FB7 at the openfirmware (3.0.d) prompt thus: 0>boot hd:,\loader hd:11 the loader does its duty and then stalls. If I change the boot command to: 0>boot hd:,\loader it reports that it "cannot load 'kernel'." I have tried copying a "generic.aa" file from the install cd's "kernels" folder to sit beside the loader file on the os9 partition, but to no avail. (Sorry for the lengthy details, but here's the question) I seem to remember something about the imacs having an 8g limit. Is this what I am running into? Why does it not affect the NB2 installation? Again, if there is an archive I could search for previous answers to this, I would be glad to know of that, and I apologize if this is a repeat. Thanks for any help. Richard DeLaurell
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