Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:29:38 +0100 From: Fabio <info@maconnect.ch> To: Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch> Cc: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>, freebsd-firewire <freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: firewire issue] Message-ID: <4CC75C6A-5261-44FB-B99A-BD6A96FFC332@maconnect.ch> In-Reply-To: <4AECB6B8.9090804@fgznet.ch> References: <1256585472.2607.4.camel@Lappy> <4AE5FD28.8080208@fgznet.ch> <B5913866-6BDA-486F-B620-9EBF8D7B39F6@maconnect.ch> <4AE618CA.9020404@fgznet.ch> <13200B3B-AFAB-465C-A635-93CDA2C6DA5B@maconnect.ch> <4AECB6B8.9090804@fgznet.ch>
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Dear Andreas, > Hi Fabio, > > Fabio wrote: >> Le 26 oct. 2009 à 22:46, Andreas Tobler a écrit : > >>>> Thank you both for your quick answer. I'll see what I can do >>>> with Andreas' diff. Right now, I'm still fighting with >>>> sysinstall (trying to get the proper partition map) so it may >>>> take a while. >>> Are you trying to install FreeBSD on an external firewire disk? >>> Or do you have a firewire device attached to you imac G3 and want >>> to install to an internal disk? >>> If the first is true, I'm sorry, I feel it won't work since early >>> Apple Firewire chips are broken in several ways. >>> If the second is true, please try to detach any firewire devices >>> from your G3 before booting. >> No FW device is attached at all. > > I experienced myself :( Well at least the bug can be reproduced every times. That's a good news actually. > I saw that you managed to find a solution so far, w/o firewire. Yes. For those that don't know, this is how I did it: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=46921#post46921 I installed 8rc1 on a USB 1.1 HD. Right now I'm compiling firefox, it's taking more than 10 hours ! My next step will be to figure out how ACPI works. > Myself I tried to get into the same stage as you're in. I have a working freebsd with an internet connection. I've installed ports and everything is working beautifully so far. I'd recommend to install perl since it's required by a lot of stuff afaik. > I think I'm there now. I learned a lot, thanks to Marcel@. > > I did an installation of RC2 on my ancient imac onto an USB based > drive. Your hints about the 'free' slices seems to be worth. > First I gpart'ed my drive w/o spare slices, I was not able that the > installer recognized my drive. Later I added some free slices in > between and then, surprise, the installer recognized my drive. The only thing is that the drive mounts on mac os, but it appears empty. Probably because we should change the Apple_HFS to something else (UFS something, don't know what). > I was able to install RC2 onto this drive including booting from it. > With pressing 'alt' at boottime and selecting the USB drive as boot/ > root drive. Great ! > Great so far. Now I have to jump into the fact where firewire kills > the booting process. I think I know where, but it'll take some time. > > In short, I'm working on. I have little spare time, but I'd be very happy to help. Let me know if there is anything I can do. > Gruss, > Andreas Fabio
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