Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:12:39 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Niels S. Eliasen" <nse@delfi-konsult.com> Cc: grehan@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdisk, ofctl and yaboot Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0806272112g5f9852fan244458642be1d1d8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7E3535B5-26B4-4333-AA92-E1EEE0697144@delfi-konsult.com> References: <A6B64505-B745-4C2C-A8A6-9672F2759F2E@delfi-konsult.com> <486511F1.60306@freebsd.org> <7E3535B5-26B4-4333-AA92-E1EEE0697144@delfi-konsult.com>
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Niels S. Eliasen <nse@delfi-konsult.com> wrote: > hi Peter, guys > Den 27/06/2008 kl. 18.14 skrev Peter Grehan: > >> Hi Niels, >> >>> Hi guys >>> a couple of minor questions...... >>> 1. Where do I find "pdisk" for FreeBSD ? >> >> Not there. It's easy enough to build it from NetBSD source (looks like >> you've done that). Now that gpart is in the tree, there should be no need >> for pdisk (at least in CURRENT). > > nice... ;-) >> >>> 2. Where do I find "ofctl" for FreeBSD ? >> >> It's eeprom(8) on FreeBSD. > > no such thing in my version of FreeBSD... is that fairly new ? > ahh.. found it in /usr/src/usr.sbin/eeprom .... > just complains about "eeprom: could not open /dev/openfirm: no such file or > directory" ?? >> >>> 3. Anyone that knows how to integrate the Open Firmware parameters for >>> FreeBSD with yaboot ? >> >> At one point the loader's load address conflicted with yaboot. This may >> not be the case anymore - it's been a very long time since I looked at it. >> But in theory the loader could be booted from yaboot. > > Well.. does not appear so.... I use "yaboot" to be able to switch between > various "flavours" .... and choosing "Open Firmware" and then just doing > "boot hd:loader hd:5" does the trick > >> >>> If only FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (all macppc) could agree upon how to >>> integrate with yaboot... alternatively find one unified boot-sequence... >>> life would be so much easier .... >> >> Might be a bit late for that :( > > sigh.... > > Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> IIRC yaboot was being deprecated for Grub 2.x. There are some >> outstanding bugs (I found) with how yaboot parses secondary cd drives >> and the like that I was going to debug and fix a while back, but I got >> caught up with other things... >> I'd definitely compile the last stable and work from that though >> because there are a few new helpful features for booting from >> non-standard locations for yaboot.conf files. >> Cheers, >> -Garrett > > Have I missed something in class... or isn't "grub" x86 only ?? > and if not so... is there any kind of "HOWTO" using grub for PowerPC ? Grub 1.x, yes. Grub 2.x, no: <http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC>. -Garrett
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