From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 13:47:20 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 9981A16A41F; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:47:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mv.twc.weather.com (mv.twc.weather.com [65.212.71.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182EB43D48; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:47:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [10.50.41.231] (Not Verified[65.202.103.25]) by mv.twc.weather.com with NetIQ MailMarshal (v6, 0, 3, 8) id ; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:01:08 -0400 From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:47:16 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050701015730.GD4460@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050701015730.GD4460@dragon.NUXI.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507010947.17929.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Suleiman Souhlal , grehan@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini) 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: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:47:20 -0000 On Thursday 30 June 2005 09:57 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 07:17:12PM -0400, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > >Also, what does sysinstall run to look at these partitions? I > > >tried 'bsdlabel' to read the list of partitions, but all it would > > >say was: "a -m option must be specified" > > > > We don't support bsd labels on ppc.. I had patches that I sent phk to > > make them work, about a year ago, but he said he'd rather not have > > them supported, because of their limits. > > At this point with FreeBSD/PPC 6.0-RELEASE happening we can't stick our > heads in the sand anymore. What type of labels do we support and which > non-Sysinstall programs does one use when adding a 2nd disk to their > system? GEOM_APPLE knows how to read the Apple labels, so I think what happens is that you have to create the partitions in OS X and then sysinstall will see them via GEOM_APPLE so that you can newfs them and stick bits on them. I believe that gpt(8) can be used on all of our archs for non-boot disks, and GPT is a much better format than bsdlabel, MBR, etc. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org