From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 11 16:00:46 2009 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 6F8EC106566B for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:00:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436258FC12 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:00:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-5.01 32bit (built Feb 19 2009)) id <0KHY006001T9C300@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:00:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.201.152.222]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-5.01 32bit (built Feb 19 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0KHY004TX1T6CG00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:00:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:00:42 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <1239463626.24591.1310047137@webmail.messagingengine.com> To: Jochen Fahrner Message-id: <49E0BEAA.7030001@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.201.152.222 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-11, Version=5.5.1.360522, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.1.350677, Antispam-Data: 2009.4.11.153426, SenderIP=76.201.152.222 References: <1239463626.24591.1310047137@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090405) Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on iMac G3 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, 11 Apr 2009 16:00:47 -0000 Jochen Fahrner wrote: > Hi, > > >> Given the error message, it's worth a try at least. The sysctl is for >> ignoring the mmap checks, and is most needed by the Radeon driver, but >> given the error message, it would probably work for the Rage as well. >> > > > Ok, I will give it a second try. Just deleted my Gentoo > installation. ;-) > > But the Gentoo boot disc has a nice mac-fdisk. So you can get rid of > the dozens of tiny slices that Apple disk utility creates on the disk > (for booting OS 9 and such things). > > Can someone mail me the HFS bootloader mentioned here? > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2008-October/003256.html > > It's not on the sources from cd. And cvsup-without-gui cannot be > installed on PPC. (why that?) > I first want to try if the basic things work, before I do the long > Xorg compile. > You can find it at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/boot1.hfs.bz2. It's 800K after decompression, and should be dd'ed onto a free partition somewhere on your disk, of type Apple_Bootstrap or Apple_HFS. You should be able to use the gpart utility in FreeBSD to add one (pass the type as !Apple_Bootstrap), or use the Gentoo mac-fdisk utility. The reason that it isn't in 7.2 is that it hasn't been MFC'ed yet -- most of this kind of work that has been done lately was done in 8.0-CURRENT, and I haven't had time to MFC a lot of it (like the boot loader) or to update sysinstall to support it. cvsup-without-gui isn't available on PPC due to lack of Modula-3 support, but you will find that csup, which is included in the base system, is a drop in replacement. If you could provide a dmesg, and a description of the crash you mentioned earlier, that would be appreciated as well. Good luck! -Nathan