From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 18:19:07 2007 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 0A6FB16A420 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from voltechs@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B8A13C4A5 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:19:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from voltechs@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so206337nzf for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:19:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=kGa0QVzWWzfamTjXLOFx3ku9XCCVAvO+wdFXCDhYPc4=; b=NirBViuyztKRHJTCtOZP1rsQZra3NxC7ow694URyBz+S1FMuNc94D5m0bcawIWzBaFdqX0aGXiRxhhpf3kVKjXDXuSzBgivHyXLbURL7GdEQLA9EMeGXW+JPTPLAMKoqgYGlrTlH5KwRBHDDGMGvs1crAtz2GB2OSu8+wkVnz4g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=M4x+7ekbgBf35bYIlR9ehWruweSQnDG5s9dS6klRGYzXZLLaPWKfvglQPZFvnxezqAIGVnZ/S7tUxxuIHLRSvkTITKRVcsNE3TP80PFKAp7fH76Y02cs8cNlxb7rAciAWQ+ZZMap30z25hiusUiX5m+2/yyk8LJfkhQKxzKlS8I= Received: by 10.114.79.1 with SMTP id c1mr126267wab.1194545938696; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:18:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.39.7 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:18:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8b25751b0711081018k70dd9cd6ied28a775bc7f6e0a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:18:58 -0800 From: "Robin Stevens" To: "Robin Stevens" In-Reply-To: <8b25751b0711071436q3c6d46c3vf842986d38303c34@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8b25751b0711051115t4e592458n929b57ee021467b1@mail.gmail.com> <4730C384.1000807@freebsd.org> <8b25751b0711070842s3991b2d2yc1443e5067605508@mail.gmail.com> <47323466.6080901@freebsd.org> <8b25751b0711071436q3c6d46c3vf842986d38303c34@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4) 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: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:19:07 -0000 Alright guys. So I went home, and did as instructed, but now I'm getting an ofw error when I try to boot the loader. CLAIM failed. What the heck is this? I'm trying to boot with: boot hd:loader hd:3 (my freeBSD partition is on ads03 or something like that) Any ideas? -- Robin On 11/7/07, Robin Stevens wrote: > Oh no Sh*t!!! > > I was trying to put the loader on the "root" or the FreeBSD partition. > Wow, ok, It finally makes sense :) I'll see how that goes when I get > home. Thanks! > > -- Robin > > On 11/7/07, Peter Grehan wrote: > > Hi Robin, > > > > > When I got home, I reformatted my drives, and partitioned into 3 sections: > > > > > > swap UFS > > > root HSF+ > > > Mac OS X Extended+Journalized. > > > > Other than the partition that is running OSX, the types of the other > > partitions don't matter. FreeBSD treats them as raw partitions without > > respect to what type they have been set to in the partition table. > > > > > well, needless to say, that didn't seem to work. After it was all > > > installed, I couldn't mount those partitions from OS X. The weird > > > thing was that I couldn't mount root. Swap seemed to be ok. So, I went > > > into Disk Utility, and wiped root. Made sure it was still HSF+, and > > > rebooted. I tried installing FreeBSD again, and it went smoothly. When > > > I came back into OS X, there was nothing in root. It was completely > > > empty. Why!!?!? > > > > OSX can't understand FreeBSD's UFS format, so it won't mount the volume. > > > > The next thing to do is to > > > > - boot OSX > > - mount the FreeBSD install CD > > - copy /boot/loader from the CDROM to /loader on OSX > > - reboot into OpenFirmware > > - remembering the partition number that FreeBSD root lives on (e.g. 8 > > for the purposes of this example) > > > > 0 > boot hd:loader hd:8 > > > > .. and then you should be away. > > > > later, > > > > Peter. > > >