Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:45:17 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Robin Stevens" <voltechs@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4) Message-ID: <p06240801c35a76b57409@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <8b25751b0711081018k70dd9cd6ied28a775bc7f6e0a@mail.gmail.com> References: <8b25751b0711051115t4e592458n929b57ee021467b1@mail.gmail.com> <4730C384.1000807@freebsd.org> <8b25751b0711070842s3991b2d2yc1443e5067605508@mail.gmail.com> <47323466.6080901@freebsd.org> <8b25751b0711071436q3c6d46c3vf842986d38303c34@mail.gmail.com> <8b25751b0711081018k70dd9cd6ied28a775bc7f6e0a@mail.gmail.com>
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At 10:18 AM -0800 11/8/07, Robin Stevens wrote:
>Alright guys. So I went home, and did as instructed, but now I'm
>getting an ofw error when I try to boot the loader.
>
>CLAIM failed.
>
>What the heck is this?
>
>I'm trying to boot with:
>
>boot hd:loader hd:3
Shouldn't that first parameter include a partition number? (I realize
that what you typed in is exactly what was said in some earlier
message, but I'm not sure that was correct)
I do:
boot hd:3,loader hd:5
^
partition number, before the ",filename"
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