Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:16:44 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Alaor Barroso <alaorbarroso@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot stop at "KDB: current backend: ddb" Message-ID: <42D88A2C.7020102@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <dd1f0a040507151907344abd8@mail.gmail.com> References: <dd1f0a0405071514154e665c64@mail.gmail.com> <42D85830.7070504@freebsd.org> <dd1f0a040507151907344abd8@mail.gmail.com>
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> Yes, I did, I forgot send my experience to this list. =P > > I entered Open Firmware and typed "mac-boot", and it send me to the > Yellow Dog Linux boot prompt (I was using YDL), so I typed "C" and the > boot process started normaly... But it stoped at the time that I'm > showing now, near this two messages... That's a bit strange: looks like yaboot was trying to load the FreeBSD kernel. > How can I escape to the freeBSD loader prompt? You'll want to boot the loader from the cd. It should load the kernel, and then give you a timeout period where you can hit the space bar to break into the loader instead of booting the kernel i.e. 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0 Loading ELF Consoles: Open Firmware console FreeBSD/Open Firmware/PowerPC bootstrap loader, Revision 0.1 (root@macmini.ptree32.com.au, Wed Jul 13 13:54:48 UTC 2005) Memory: 655360KB Booted from: /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-3@20000/disk@0 Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x32fc18 data=0x3113c+0x94554 syms=[0x4+0x3be10+0x4+0x4a6d9] Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 7 seconds... Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help OK > I've tested the OpenBSD macppc and it booted normaly, but I think that > I fucked up some important native MAC partitions, like Apple_Bootstrap > partition and now I think that I nedd rebuild this with the MacOSX > CDROM, will freeBSD need those partitions? No, FreeBSD will install on *any* partition type, but you need to keep at least one HFS+ partition to install the loader onto so that OpenFirmware can read it in and boot it. later, Peter.
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