Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:24:38 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Richard DeLaurell <richard.delaurell@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: imac rev D 7.0 rel booting issue Message-ID: <20080801122438.EFA73657@dommail.onthenet.com.au>
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Hi Richard, >I installed FreeBSD 7 on partitions 11-16; those begin >at 11g. .. >I seem to remember something about the imacs having an 8g >limit. Is this what I am running into? I believe this might be the case: it's a limit with OpenFirmware, which the FreeBSD loader uses to access disk blocks. >Why does it not affect the NB2 installation? As you mentioned, the NetBSD kernel is in the os9 partition, which is < 8G. Once the o/s has booted, NetBSD (and FreeBSD) will use hardware to directly access the drives and An issue you have seen is that the FreeBSD loader has no HFS filesystem support, so it can't boot a kernel that is on the same HFS partition that it may itself live on. later, Peter.
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