Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 07:03:33 +0000 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Initially setting up power pc Message-ID: <3F7D1F45.7060004@liwing.de> In-Reply-To: <3F7D1D7E.11616929@freebsd.org> References: <3F7C08B9.6080803@liwing.de> <3F7D1D7E.11616929@freebsd.org>
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Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Jens, > > >>as I asked in May, is their any chance for me to setup a cd or hard >>disk to get my IBM 43p booting a freebsd? My question is: how do I >>cross-compile my src-tree and how do I have to set up the hard disk >>I put in the machine (or how do I create a cd-image, because 'make >>isoimage' seems not to work or I'm to stupid for this)? > > > To cross-compile the source tree: > > # make -DNOLIBC_R TARGET_ARCH=powerpc buildworld > # make -DNOLIBC_R TARGET_ARCH=powerpc buildkernel Ok, than it's build. How do I get this into the machine? > Now, since this is an IBM Power machine, and unsupported by FreeBSD/PPC, > the first step is probably to see if the FreeBSD loader will be accepted > by OpenFirmware. The best bet would be to see if you could get Linux > up and running on the box, since that would provide an environment where > you could gather info on how to boot the box and it's h/w internals. Linux/PPC runs fine, since 2000. Best, Jens
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