From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 03:59:13 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 6B69D1065688 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:59:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from adsum.doit.wisc.edu (adsum.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E6338FC17 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:59:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) id <0K8P00H00N2O3500@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:59:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from trantor.tachypleus.net (adsl-99-154-3-101.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [99.154.3.101]) by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K8P009ZPN2NZN20@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:59:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:59:10 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <1223565620.15248.218.camel@horst-tla> To: =?UTF-8?B?SG9yc3QgR8O8bnRoZXIgQnVya2hhcmR0IElJSQ==?= Message-id: <48F4190E.1070504@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=99.154.3.101 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-13, Version=5.4.2.344556, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2008.10.14.33708, SenderIP=99.154.3.101 References: <1223562121.15248.213.camel@horst-tla> <1223565620.15248.218.camel@horst-tla> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080928) Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: The only box that can't mount its own install media. 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, 14 Oct 2008 03:59:13 -0000 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