Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:15:48 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Also interested in testing Message-ID: <3E547294.E74DEC5@freebsd.org> References: <166439.1045677133482.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <15955.50979.366413.172143@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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> 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.
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