Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:00:15 -0400 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD/powerpc from external FireWire drive? Message-ID: <EB905A3C-3983-4EE4-9EC9-C9585C0DEBFB@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=2PLR_BkOnD%2B4JDUVyzjSDGbvuxVL5YhCvgT9r@mail.gmail.com> References: <40D5CC15-8828-4CFD-AE13-2211B9742AE2@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20101001150548.6a652cba@anacreon.physics.wisc.edu> <5F44B27D-0A14-4F59-8EA2-2D52ADC4C79D@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <4CAA4828.3010906@freebsd.org> <07BF978E-D458-4138-8871-00D5AC1106C0@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20101005195613.22292695.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <8040E102-FEBF-48E3-AA06-ADD47458C963@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <AANLkTi=2PLR_BkOnD%2B4JDUVyzjSDGbvuxVL5YhCvgT9r@mail.gmail.com>
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On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Gary wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Mather wrote:
>
>> It works when booting from the graphical boot chooser (obtained by holding down
>> the Option key during boot), but I couldn't figure out a way to boot from an external
>> FireWire drive from the OpenFirmware prompt (Cmd-Opt-O-F startup).
>
> Presumably you have it temporarily connected to a monitor in order to
> learn that holding Option lets you boot from the external drive. In
> that case, have you tried booting in to OS X and choosing that drive
> from the "Startup Disk" system preferences?
The external drive is flagged as "unrecognised" under Mac OS X, and I get a window pop up asking me if I want to initialise it or ignore it when it is connected. I am presuming this is because the partitions don't look sufficiently "OS X"-like.
Here are what the partitions look like:
powerpc# gpart show -r
=> 5 78140155 ad0 APM (37G)
5 262203 - free - (128M)
262208 77877936 2 Apple_HFS (37G)
78140144 16 - free - (8.0K)
=> 18 78165342 da0 APM (37G)
18 1600 1 Apple_Bootstrap (800K)
1618 2097152 2 FreeBSD-UFS (1.0G)
2098770 8388608 3 FreeBSD-swap (4.0G)
10487378 16777216 4 FreeBSD-UFS (8.0G)
27264594 2097152 5 FreeBSD-UFS (1.0G)
29361746 4194304 6 FreeBSD-UFS (2.0G)
33556050 16777216 7 FreeBSD-UFS (8.0G)
50333266 27832094 8 FreeBSD-UFS (13G)
where ad0 is the internal drive (with Mac OS X installed) and da0 is the external drive (with FreeBSD installed).
(BTW, right now I am doing all my testing on an external FireWire hooked up to a PowerBook G4 laptop that does have a screen and built-in keyboard, so that I can familiarise myself with the install and boot process in preparation for hooking it up to the Xserve G5 that lacks these graphical amenities.)
Cheers,
Paul.
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