From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 10 18:17:27 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 90DD2106564A for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:17:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu) Received: from mpv3.TIS.cwru.edu (mpv3.tis.CWRU.Edu [129.22.105.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F758FC08 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:17:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu) Received: from mpv8.TIS.CWRU.edu (mpv8.tis.CWRU.Edu [129.22.105.116]) by mpv3.TIS.cwru.edu (MOS 3.10.5-GA) with ESMTP id COE60362 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:06:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from beta.eecs.cwru.edu (beta.eecs.CWRU.Edu [129.22.150.110]) by mpv8.TIS.CWRU.edu (MOS 4.1.5-GA) with ESMTP id EDA64909 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:05:24 -0400 Received: from narn.knownspace ([::ffff:69.250.50.210]) (AUTH: PLAIN jrh29, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,168bits,DES-CBC3-SHA) by beta.eecs.cwru.edu with esmtp; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:05:32 -0400 id 00007673.49DF8A6C.00002C1D Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:06:07 -0400 From: Justin Hibbits To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090410180607.GD46038@narn.knownspace> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/49, host=mpv3.cwru.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A010209.49DF8AA2.02A0,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=129.22.105.116, so=2009-03-06 19:59:02, dmn=5.4.3/2007-10-18, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: 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 18:17:27 -0000 On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:49:53PM +0200, Jochen Fahrner wrote: > 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 There is a bootloader, but it's not the easiest thing to install at the moment. Take a look at the following mailing list thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2008-October/003256.html You don't need to update your source if you have a recent snapshot, but the rest of the instructions will make things work. - Justin