Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:14:16 +0100 From: Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch> To: Fabio <info@maconnect.ch> Cc: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>, freebsd-firewire <freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: firewire issue] Message-ID: <4AECB6B8.9090804@fgznet.ch> In-Reply-To: <13200B3B-AFAB-465C-A635-93CDA2C6DA5B@maconnect.ch> References: <1256585472.2607.4.camel@Lappy> <4AE5FD28.8080208@fgznet.ch> <B5913866-6BDA-486F-B620-9EBF8D7B39F6@maconnect.ch> <4AE618CA.9020404@fgznet.ch> <13200B3B-AFAB-465C-A635-93CDA2C6DA5B@maconnect.ch>
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Hi Fabio, Fabio wrote: > Le 26 oct. 2009 à 22:46, Andreas Tobler a écrit : >>> Thank you both for your quick answer. I'll see what I can do with >>> Andreas' diff. Right now, I'm still fighting with sysinstall >>> (trying to get the proper partition map) so it may take a while. >> Are you trying to install FreeBSD on an external firewire disk? Or >> do you have a firewire device attached to you imac G3 and want to >> install to an internal disk? >> If the first is true, I'm sorry, I feel it won't work since early >> Apple Firewire chips are broken in several ways. >> If the second is true, please try to detach any firewire devices >> from your G3 before booting. > > No FW device is attached at all. I experienced myself :( >> The firewire code from 8.0/CURRENT goes into an infinite loop with >> this crappy chip. > > Well for now I'm booting from an USB 1.0 HD, but my ultimate goal is > to boot from the FW. I'm not ready to give up right now ^^ > >> If both are not true, if you can, try to use the pdisk from OS-X to >> format your partition you want fbsd installed on. > > That's what I did. In fact, this is my partition map: > > #: type name length > base ( size ) > 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > 2: Apple_Bootstrap freebsd_boot 4000 @ 64 ( 2.0M) > 3: Apple_HFS Extra 156297424 @ 4064 ( 74.5G) > > But I keep getting an "Operation not permitted" with sysinstall. I > even tried fdisk. And I used the "dd" command to copy the boot1.hfs > file. > I'll see if I can find an answer in the freebsd-ppc list archive. I saw that you managed to find a solution so far, w/o firewire. Myself I tried to get into the same stage as you're in. I think I'm there now. I learned a lot, thanks to Marcel@. I did an installation of RC2 on my ancient imac onto an USB based drive. Your hints about the 'free' slices seems to be worth. First I gpart'ed my drive w/o spare slices, I was not able that the installer recognized my drive. Later I added some free slices in between and then, surprise, the installer recognized my drive. I was able to install RC2 onto this drive including booting from it. With pressing 'alt' at boottime and selecting the USB drive as boot/root drive. Great so far. Now I have to jump into the fact where firewire kills the booting process. I think I know where, but it'll take some time. In short, I'm working on. Gruss, Andreas
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