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Hi Andreas,

> Well, the handbook is a bit vague. I managed to boot via nfs after 
> tweaking var and tmp in init.d. I told them that I have a ro /.
> Then they created a /dev/md* (ramdisk, right?)
> Ok, with this hack I was able boot, but I couldn't add a user nor was I 
> able to create a master.passwd.

  That's definitely a file-locking issue.

>>  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2002/08/05/0002.html
> 
> 
> Ah, Ben the man. Ok, where would such a sequence go? 
> arch/powerpc/macppc? ? cpu_setup ?

  It's sys/powerpc on FreeBSD, but the actions are split across the 
/powerpc and /powermac directories. Very ugly :(  Anyways, there's no 
PMU support yet so it's moot for the time being.

> For example I tried to build a kernel. Seems very unstable, I often got 
> a sig 11 and retrying solved it until the next error.
> Also, a buildworld was non predictable in behavior.

  How much RAM and swap do you have ? It might be worth running 'top' in 
another login window to see what's going on.

later,

Peter.