From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 16 04:16:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org 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 4B39E16A41C for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 04:16:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from liberty.onthenet.com.au (liberty.OntheNet.com.au [203.22.124.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DBC43D48 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 04:16:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from [203.144.2.137] (CPE-2-137.dsl.OntheNet.net [203.144.2.137]) by liberty.onthenet.com.au (8.12.9 - 20030918/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j6G4Gf7v024543; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:16:41 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <42D88A2C.7020102@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:16:44 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alaor Barroso References: <42D85830.7070504@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot stop at "KDB: current backend: ddb" 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: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 04:16:44 -0000 > 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.