From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 10 17:49:58 2009 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 A64921065692 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:49:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@fahrners.de) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4C68FC24 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:49:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@fahrners.de) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C480315EFF; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:49:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:49:57 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: sBCzWx3YbdEQ5SmfkmwbAdxcM74Fm1drZ5VLsS/ccF+u 1239385797 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (ppp-93-104-111-236.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.111.236]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1DF894D1FE for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:49:56 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org From: Jochen Fahrner Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:49:53 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Subject: Booting on Mac 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: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:49:59 -0000 Hi, booting FreeBSD on Mac is not really comfortable. A friend of mine told me that Fedora installs "yaboot", that is a boot manager like GRUB for Linux-i386. Isn't something like that available for FreeBSD PPC? If not, would it be possible to patch the FreeBSD bootonly CD to boot the kernel from harddisc? I think this should be easy, but I cannot find the right file where I can change the location of the kernel. Leaving the boot CD always in the drive and pressing "C" on power on, is always better than pressing "Opt-CMD-O-F" and entering cryptic commands with a german keyboard that has some non-alphabetic characters in the wrong place. :-( Jochen