Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:24:12 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: "K. Bradford" <int.0x0080@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Powerpc port Message-ID: <47E8381C.1080101@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <c08615500803201813n61c23c3xea1ce293c3587381@mail.gmail.com> References: <c08615500803201813n61c23c3xea1ce293c3587381@mail.gmail.com>
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K. Bradford wrote: > I have installed 7.0-RELEASE on an old Mac G4. > I have cvs'ed the latest sources (using the RELENG_7 tag) > in order to track 7.0-STABLE. > > The problem: I can boot only off the FreeBSD install CD, > by breaking into open firmware upon bootup like this: > > 0 > boot mac-io/ata-3@20000/disk@1:,\boot\boot.tbxi > > Open firmware loads this boot loader which then automagically > loads and runs the FreeBSD loader. Then, I interrupt using the > space bar to get to the loader prompt and explicitly set the > root device to be the hard drive partition. > > OK set rootdev=mac-io/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:3 > (My FreeBSD root partition is 3). > > Kernel boots up, mounts / off the hard drive and the system > runs fine. > > Can someone advise me how to set up everything correctly > on the hard drive so I don't have to jump through all these hoops? > > I'm guessing boot.tbxi is needed somewhere under /boot, > but I don't think open firmware can read a BSD partition anyway. > > Documentation on the powerpc port seems sparse. Could > someone please point me in the right direction, or provide > brief instructions here. As always, any help/advice is greatly > appreciated. Since Open Firmware doesn't understand UFS you have two options - you can either use the CD as a first-stage loader, or use an OS X partition to boot from. Since I got rid of my OS X partition when I installed FreeBSD on my G4 I use the first option. The simplest way is to just leave the CD in the drive and type: > boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:3 There are more instructions about booting Macs at http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt -- Bruce
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