From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 14:02:44 2005 Return-Path: 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 5990216A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:02:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from liberty.onthenet.com.au (liberty.OntheNet.com.au [203.22.124.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B24343D2D for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:02:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from [203.144.31.113] (CPE-31-113.dsl.onthenet.net [203.144.31.113]) j0NE2enP030361; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:02:41 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <41F3AFBD.60505@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:07:57 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn References: <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac mini and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:02:44 -0000 Hi Garance, > Close, very close! Bummer, thanks for giving it a try. > I repartitioned my disk (using the Apple Disk Utility), leaving one > partition for FreeBSD, and one for FreeBSD-swap. I booted up the > most-recent FreeBSD/PPC install CD (by holding down the 'C' key while > rebooting), and it works fine. I get all the way to where I should > select installation media. I select "Install from a FreeBSD CD/DVD", > and it says... > > No CD/DVD devices found! > > (even though it's running off of it!) The loader uses OpenFirmware calls to load the kernel (and ramdisk), so it's always possible for a kernel to be booted from media that the kernel doesn't understand, but the ROM does. > I don't know what would be the best way to work around that, but I > have to head for home right about now. (We're about to get hit with > a major blizzard, according to the weather reports). Should I copy > some of the files off the install-cd to one of my other freebsd boxes, > and then point to that as an "ftp site" for install? I tried to say > "use an existing filesystem", but that didn't get very far. I just had a scan of the NetBSD dmesg and OpenFirmware dump that Matt Thomas posted: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2005/01/20/0014.html It's definitely an Intrepid-based system, pretty much identical to my PowerBook G4. There are two ATA controllers. The hard drive is on the 'Kauai' controller, which should show up in the boot log similar to: ata1: mem 0xf5004000-0xf5007fff irq 39 at device 13.0 on pci2 The optical drive is the macio controller, which is a cell built into Apple's south-bridge equivalent. It should show up very early in the boot sequence: macio0: mem 0x80000000-0x8007ffff ..... .... ata0 mem 0x8700-0x87ff,0x8600-0x86ff ..... (lots of extra addrs here) And at the end of the boot, just before the screen switches over to the sysinstall menu, you should see the disks being probed e.g. Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec acd0: DVDR at ata0-master BIOSPIO ad0: 57231MB [116280/16/63] at ata1-master BIOSPIO If you're having trouble with lines scrolling off the screen, you can switch to a micro syscons font at the loader prompt: OK set hw.syscons.fsize=8 later, Peter.