From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 20:34:01 2011 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 B3A63106566B for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:34:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from adsum.doit.wisc.edu (adsum.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D78C8FC13 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:34:01 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LI200J00EGOZB00@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:34:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: from anacreon.physics.wisc.edu (anacreon.physics.wisc.edu [128.104.160.176]) by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LI2007I8EGNAO50@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:33:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:33:59 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <20110314212840.91564b62.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-id: <4D7E7BB7.7020002@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=128.104.160.176 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-14, Version=5.6.0.2009776, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.3.14.202416, SenderIP=128.104.160.176 References: <20110113220450.57d09983.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20110114221406.34969090.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <4D31582F.1060300@FreeBSD.org> <20110115190637.7ac32abe.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20110122200810.2386cbef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20110313221425.a8d3361f.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <4200D52B-ED04-4F6A-BA2A-EAD7DF3EBF37@gmail.com> <20110314212840.91564b62.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD powerpc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110305 Thunderbird/3.1.9 Subject: Re: PowerPC, gpart and multiboot (Was: Trying to install FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 on a PowerMac G5) 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, 14 Mar 2011 20:34:01 -0000 On 03/14/11 15:28, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:48:24 -0400 > Justin Hibbits wrote: > >> Don't quote me on it, but you might be able to use forth scripts on >> the 'primary' FreeBSD install's root to do what you're asking, >> possibly modifying one of the scripts in ...sys/boot/forth. > Aha, so there isn't a simple boot manager available (like 'boot0' for i386)? > I would like this to be as painless as possible, once set up. There is the OF menu (hold down option), but the FreeBSD boot block is currently hard-coded to boot from the first UFS partition on the disk it is on, so this only works for multi-disk setups or multi-booting into Linux and OS X. -Nathan