From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 21 12:09:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736DB16A4CE; Sat, 21 May 2005 12:09:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.messaging.ch (exsmtp01.agrinet.ch [81.221.250.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C24D643D83; Sat, 21 May 2005 12:09:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toa@pop.agri.ch) Received: from [192.168.225.5] ([80.218.0.93]) by smtp.messaging.ch with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 21 May 2005 14:09:19 +0200 Message-ID: <428F24E8.2080202@pop.agri.ch> Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 14:09:12 +0200 From: Andreas Tobler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Grehan References: <428BC6D0.90207@freebsd.org> <428CFF53.7070907@pop.agri.ch> <428D2D6C.5050601@freebsd.org> <428E59DE.9000900@pop.agri.ch> <428E7734.9060606@freebsd.org> <428ED750.70308@pop.agri.ch> <428EE671.5030900@freebsd.org> <428EE966.4040305@pop.agri.ch> <428EF788.8070700@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <428EF788.8070700@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 May 2005 12:09:19.0343 (UTC) FILETIME=[EA9157F0:01C55DFD] cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated install ISO X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 12:09:22 -0000 Hi Peter, Peter Grehan wrote: > You can artificially reduce the amount of RAM present from the loader > prompt with > > OK set hw.physmem=512M > > ... or whatever value. It might be worthwhile to try it at 512M and see > how it goes. The builds I've done have been on machines with 512 and 640M. Coming back from a kernel trap now :) Wanted to cd /cdrom. Well, another story. I set to 512M and, oh wonder, both, a buildworld and a buildkernel started promisingly. I was in gcc build when the trap happened. So, I definitely have too much memory :) Also, no problem with switching console, on one a buildkernel on another one a buildworld and in a third some shell activities. No weird errors nor sig 11 stuff. The question about buildworld and buildkernel I should be able to answer later when my trials finish. I think I go through these steps now and see what I understand. A boot question I have, my install sits on an external fw disk. Under fbsd it's /dev/da0s3. How do I tell the loader to boot from this device? Now I boot with: cd:,\boot\loader On the prompt I do: set hw.physmem=512M set currdev=cd:, boot -s on mountroot> I type: ufs:/dev/da0s3 The I boot into fbsd. from there I can login and play around. So, is there a way to pack these steps into one file? Thanks a lot, Andreas