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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:59:10 -0500
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?SG9yc3QgR8O8bnRoZXIgQnVya2hhcmR0IElJSQ==?= <horst@sxemacs.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: The only box that can't mount its own install media.
Message-ID:  <48F4190E.1070504@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1223565620.15248.218.camel@horst-tla>
References:  <1223562121.15248.213.camel@horst-tla> <1223565620.15248.218.camel@horst-tla>

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Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote:
> 
> Also, is there any more "elegant" bootloader for PPC that could be
> used? 

I just committed a stage-1 boot loader to -CURRENT that generates a 
bootable HFS filesystem in the style of our other platforms (e.g. it 
will read the stage-3 loader from UFS).

To use it:
  - update your source tree
  - cd /sys/boot/powerpc/boot1.chrp
  - make && make install
  - dd if=/boot/boot1.hfs of=/dev/bootstrap_partition

OF should then find everything and load it by itself -- FreeBSD should 
even show up in the firmware boot menu.
-Nathan



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