From owner-freebsd-ppc Wed Feb 19 22:14:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F72C37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:14:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from gt3.OntheNet.com.au (nt.com.au [203.13.70.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E5A43F93 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (CPE-203-45-238-180.qld.bigpond.net.au [203.45.238.180]) by gt3.OntheNet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1K6EaVU062508; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:14:37 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <3E547294.E74DEC5@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:15:48 +1000 From: Peter Grehan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Also interested in testing References: <166439.1045677133482.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <15955.50979.366413.172143@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Its somewhat easier to just copy the kernel to the HFS+ partition and > boot it directly. Hopefully that can be fixed with some work on the loader. While it's an interesting feature to be able to boot the kernel directly, you miss out on a lot of stuff. Beware, the ppc port might even follow the sparc64 route in the future :-) /* * Panic is there is no metadata. Most likely the kernel was booted * directly, instead of through loader(8). */ if (mdp == NULL || kmdp == NULL) { printf("sparc64_init: no loader metadata.\n" "This probably means you are not using loader(8).\n"); panic("sparc64_init"); } later, Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message