From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 16:15:26 2008 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 858F21065691 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:15:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcotrillo@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F748FC2A for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:15:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcotrillo@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s17so759991wxc.7 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:15:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=1GvK5qlI6Y6lbgSxP27mTGmIdlKliwKNpORhORsPRDk=; b=VEHb33PK6qZsLTvoesVlHMfSCjcJ76V9ukApH03z/Ei5RSRWayihbrL2Cx6TiNucgK JBnKfMhhTH0h14KteiijYTHtTnvM5rde7O+YV2FgmQgMLuYWWsz0ePDKscK2n1V1zl7O fvsSmwcO5IWuEkygpnrTVlpkH2kHYxQblMYzs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=JXhICZ4VnmQOCTxUqKM9+XPALOKi8jQLrIB0cRTreZQSnWti2g3lFSJDna9rQMvgnB PEqWrFkt8JndTHlbNn03F5em943ZLhwjIDQHR3Ct31KdH9hcfXSASKrVrZBnwb9fn5bT /N4bxtb9CrZvIY5apYDLhMI8C/80qtjpBIgwE= Received: by 10.142.128.6 with SMTP id a6mr2805660wfd.10.1223396124726; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.101.13 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:15:24 +0200 From: "Marco Trillo" To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Horst_G=FCnther_Burkhardt_III?=" In-Reply-To: <1223395892.15248.167.camel@horst-tla> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1223393073.15248.151.camel@horst-tla> <1223394238.15248.161.camel@horst-tla> <1223395892.15248.167.camel@horst-tla> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: bootloader installation 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, 07 Oct 2008 16:15:26 -0000 Hi, On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Horst G=FCnther Burkhardt III wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:51 +0200, Marco Trillo wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Horst G=FCnther Burkhardt III >> wrote: >> > Also, as I don't any longer have OS X there, can I boot into the freeb= sd >> > that is on the hard disk, using the cd, from OF somehow, just until I >> > install the loader? >> >> Sure. Just use "boot cd:0,\boot\loader hd:Y" where Y is the FreeBSD >> partition number. >> >> You can also install the loader from FreeBSD using "hfsutils". > > This is a problem. doing this from the OF console (btw, it's partition > number 11 on disk 0 (disk0s11)) results in the following: > > DISK-LABEL: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=3D0 adler32=3D1 > > LOAD-SIZE is too small > ok > 0 > > Try "boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:11", without the "0". Hope that helps, Marco.