From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 01:58:45 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 937BF106566B for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:58:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cdick@ocis.net) Received: from mail.ocis.net (mail.ocis.net [209.52.173.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EA38FC13 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:58:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cdick@ocis.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mail.ocis.net) by mail.ocis.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1LRzfd-000AJX-IK; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:58:42 -0800 From: "Colin Dick" To: Garance A Drosihn ,freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:56:48 -0800 Message-Id: <20090128015649.M62384@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20090105162138.M45881@ocis.net> <1231178414.24576.32.camel@horst-tla> <20090127000528.M4693@ocis.net> <20090127235026.M44901@ocis.net> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.53 X-OriginatingIP: 209.52.175.38 (cdick) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: justin@ocis.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 Install on an older Mac Mini 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: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:58:45 -0000 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