Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:20:20 +1100 From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The only box that can't mount its own install media. Message-ID: <1223565620.15248.218.camel@horst-tla> In-Reply-To: <1223562121.15248.213.camel@horst-tla> References: <1223562121.15248.213.camel@horst-tla>
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--=-nuS2j/MwYm7tY+4t6q60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 01:22 +1100, Horst G=C3=BCnther Burkhardt III wrote: > I realise that this email may sound like a bad joke. Believe me it is > not.=20 >=20 > I would like to know i can boot into BSD without needing a CD to boot > from, before I start building my world.=20 >=20 > To this end I attempted to set up the bootloader as instructed earlier > (boot.tbxi) by simply copying it to the root of the HFS partition. It > would appear however that my computer will have none of that. >=20 > So, next thing to try is copying /boot/loader from the CD to /loader on > the HFS partition, as i was also instructed by another ML user.=20 [...] > Also, to whoever shouted out earlier about improved UDMA support in the > kernel, can I have links to the relevant downloads? I'm going to rebuild > this thing anyhow so I may as well use the niceties :) >=20 > Cheers.=20 >=20 > -- Horst. Disregard that, i suck ... CD spindles.=20 I figured out the mount problem.=20 media's mounted, now I need to figure out how the loader works. Any volunteers to explain what drops where? (i'm using hfsutils, i have no os x anymore)=20 Also, is there any more "elegant" bootloader for PPC that could be used?=20 --=-nuS2j/MwYm7tY+4t6q60 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkjuITQACgkQRtTtv0BbTe4ooQCfe174jYL9UipmxmSIaWmBiToD PMwAn2ANhcTPV9Ftd6Bv6tV6woV3IMe4 =ec/+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-nuS2j/MwYm7tY+4t6q60--
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