Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:24:09 +0000 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Initially setting up power pc Message-ID: <3F82B069.9040905@liwing.de> In-Reply-To: <3F8290CC.3F507979@freebsd.org> References: <3F7C08B9.6080803@liwing.de> <3F7D1D7E.11616929@freebsd.org> <3F7D1F45.7060004@liwing.de> <3F81438B.331EC2A5@freebsd.org> <3F8147BF.5030606@liwing.de> <3F8290CC.3F507979@freebsd.org>
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Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Jens, > > >>Hm, I could start a research if setting up harddisk is definitively >>impossible. What I'm currently interested in is, how do I labeling >>the disk to get started? > > > Sorry, I don't know what format disks should be on IBM rs/6k machines. > > >>>>Linux/PPC runs fine, since 2000. >>> >>>OK, that should at least give you a start wrt to how to bootstrap the system. >> >>wrt? >>Don't understood. > > > Linux already has the boot process working on this machine, so if you can > work out how it occurs (e.g. what OpenFirmware commands are needed, what > format the loader is in etc), it should help in understanding what is needed > to get FreeBSD to boot. The loader is the same as for PowerMacs. At least, it's documented that way in the manual. So creating an cd-image for PowerMac should work with the 43p machines (and above). Jens
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