Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:56:48 -0800 From: "Colin Dick" <cdick@ocis.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>,freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Cc: justin@ocis.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 Install on an older Mac Mini Message-ID: <20090128015649.M62384@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <p06240802c5a5574c1220@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20090105162138.M45881@ocis.net> <1231178414.24576.32.camel@horst-tla> <20090127000528.M4693@ocis.net> <p06240802c5a43899e098@[128.113.24.47]> <20090127235026.M44901@ocis.net> <p06240802c5a5574c1220@[128.113.24.47]>
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Hey Garance, I did reference your message for that iso_install.txt doc and did exactly as you describe. I have it booting (albeit with the need for OFW and the FreeBSD 7.0 CD in the drive). If there is ever a way to be able to run this thing remotely, I will be quite interested. However, since it is my home server, I guess if it ever crashes or if I have to reboot, I can have a keyboard on standby to get to OFW and issue the boot "cd:,\boot\loader hd:3" command. I have just run portsnap fetch/extract and I am ready to start building ports. Before I begin and break things, is there anything special I have to do before building or can I now just start to run this thing like I would any i386 device? Thanks for all your help thus far and for anything else I bother you with as I go down this road. TTYL. -- Colin On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:48:25 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote > At 3:50 PM -0800 1/27/09, Colin Dick wrote: > > > > So, as long as it boots, I will be in business. Ugh, it didn't > >boot. The build completed but I think I am going to have to do > >some OFW magic to get it to boot. I have seen a document on this > >list or referenced in this list that may point me in the right > >direction. If anyone has specifics to save me some research, > >please feel free to chime in! > > check the end of: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt > > (which was probably also on the 7.1 install CD). The heading on > that web page says "FreeBSD/PPC 6.0-RELEASE install.iso", but I > expect the section about booting issues is still correct. Read > the part down at: "5. First boot" > > In my case, I copy the file "/boot/loader" to the MacOS partition > that was the first partition created on my internal hard disk. I > name the copy "fbsd_loader" just so I remember what it is if I > come across it sometime when running MacOS, and wonder what it's > doing there. And then whenever I want to boot up freebsd I use > the openfirmware command: > > boot hd:3,fbsd_loader hd:5 > > It looks like you did not create a MacOS partition, so you won't > be able to use that. But the iso_install write-up tells you how > you can boot up using the initial freebsd install CD. > > Note that I'm pretty sure that OpenFirmware still has no idea about > how to find any file on a FreeBSD-formatted partition, so I think > you will be stuck with using the CD-booting method. The write-up > provides a sample command of: > > boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:11 > > but in your case "/" is on "ad0s3", so you'd want that "hd:11" to > be "hd:3". > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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