From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 20:00:49 2010 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 AAEBB106566C for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101908FC0C for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dagger.cc.vt.edu (dagger.cc.vt.edu [198.82.163.114]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o95K0IhT021607; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:00:18 -0400 Received: from auth3.smtp.vt.edu (EHLO auth3.smtp.vt.edu) ([198.82.161.152]) by dagger.cc.vt.edu (MOS 4.1.8-GA FastPath queued) with ESMTP id MMY47579; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:00:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gromit.tower.lib.vt.edu (gromit.tower.lib.vt.edu [128.173.51.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by auth3.smtp.vt.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o95K0FCE030834 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:00:15 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Paul Mather In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:00:15 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: 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> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 198.82.161.152 auth3.smtp.vt.edu paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu 5 none X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=neutral-1, source=Fixed, refid=n/a, actions=MAILHURDLE SPF TAG X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=dagger.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020203.4CAB83D2.0115,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2009-09-22 00:05:22, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Cc: Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD/powerpc from external FireWire drive? 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: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:00:49 -0000 On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Gary wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Mather wrote: >=20 >> 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). >=20 > 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 =3D> 5 78140155 ad0 APM (37G) 5 262203 - free - (128M) 262208 77877936 2 Apple_HFS (37G) 78140144 16 - free - (8.0K) =3D> 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.