From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 7 22:36:11 2007 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 6EC9516A419 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:36:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from voltechs@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2DCA13C4B9 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:36:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from voltechs@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so1631021nzf for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:36:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=5NxG9gKGm1aGR3/sFOZijPQdUlCQreAC2zDNL7Xpl2M=; b=VwtFxDw6VqFz8dzZM1jBcawcpmRqeKcLW7PUYHMKPC/Y+d0YVmRv6IaFcmUB/03Asowb2tiBnu1Er+wEW7TwItSB7EvbpjmxQQQYKHgM8d8nERKY+1IB9pvHJA8kxTOlGEAJGGCyCMBVcaWvF/6kzCJQURkUYxOiziAAkMf4pRc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ObmC3hFpM7Ai8Y8dh4QvsKsTU2L8VzXoFtT6QaKUK/zOonvB+DFcA6qxc3fMGNFc538S/UjSFh895Al/yNZAoy7iQx3xF5mkfayszartpjJi06bPU6uUePj2tmBB9IX054GSiYM5Px+FbfkpvG2gRKNpYdM2ZddNsWzlhiv4FzA= Received: by 10.115.107.1 with SMTP id j1mr8100352wam.1194474960978; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:36:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.39.7 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:36:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8b25751b0711071436q3c6d46c3vf842986d38303c34@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:36:00 -0800 From: "Robin Stevens" Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <47323466.6080901@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8b25751b0711051115t4e592458n929b57ee021467b1@mail.gmail.com> <4730C384.1000807@freebsd.org> <8b25751b0711070842s3991b2d2yc1443e5067605508@mail.gmail.com> <47323466.6080901@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4) 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: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:36:11 -0000 Oh no Sh*t!!! I was trying to put the loader on the "root" or the FreeBSD partition. Wow, ok, It finally makes sense :) I'll see how that goes when I get home. Thanks! -- Robin On 11/7/07, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Robin, > > > When I got home, I reformatted my drives, and partitioned into 3 sections: > > > > swap UFS > > root HSF+ > > Mac OS X Extended+Journalized. > > Other than the partition that is running OSX, the types of the other > partitions don't matter. FreeBSD treats them as raw partitions without > respect to what type they have been set to in the partition table. > > > well, needless to say, that didn't seem to work. After it was all > > installed, I couldn't mount those partitions from OS X. The weird > > thing was that I couldn't mount root. Swap seemed to be ok. So, I went > > into Disk Utility, and wiped root. Made sure it was still HSF+, and > > rebooted. I tried installing FreeBSD again, and it went smoothly. When > > I came back into OS X, there was nothing in root. It was completely > > empty. Why!!?!? > > OSX can't understand FreeBSD's UFS format, so it won't mount the volume. > > The next thing to do is to > > - boot OSX > - mount the FreeBSD install CD > - copy /boot/loader from the CDROM to /loader on OSX > - reboot into OpenFirmware > - remembering the partition number that FreeBSD root lives on (e.g. 8 > for the purposes of this example) > > 0 > boot hd:loader hd:8 > > .. and then you should be away. > > later, > > Peter. >