From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 23:29:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96247106566B for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 23:29:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from thalia-smout.broadpark.no (thalia-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532568FC0C for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 23:29:24 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from terra-smin.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.13]) by thalia-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTP id <0LA1005GYQKYZP30@thalia-smout.broadpark.no> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:29:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no ([80.203.109.34]) by terra-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with SMTP id <0LA100A7GQKYFF50@terra-smin.broadpark.no> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:29:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:29:22 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-id: <20101010012922.f65dbcf5.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.20.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Subject: FreeBSD 8.1-release on PowerBook G4 - is firewire disks supported? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:29:24 -0000 Hello, Are firewire drives supported in FreeBSD 8.1-release on powerpc? I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.1-release on a PowerBook G4[1] I have. The internal disk drive contains OS X, and will continue that way. So I am trying to install FreeBSD on an external drive I have, a Maxtor firewire drive. This drive shows up both in OS X and in Open Firmware, but after booting the FreeBSD install image (disc1), it is nowhere to be seen. - there are no nodes in /dev for it (I used echo /dev/* to verify) - camcontrol devlist -v lists only the memory stick I am booting from - camcontrol rescan all doesn't change anything I can see lines with "firewire" when the machine boots, but there is no dmesg command on the disc1 image, and the PowerBook doesn't have a "scroll lock" key on its keyboard, so its quite hard to look closer at the dmesg. Booting from a usb memory stick. As an added challenge, the internal dvd drive in the PowerBook isn't working anymore, so I have to use other means to boot the FreeBSD installer (disc1). First I tried with a usb cd drive (ok, it is a Plextor DVW writer) I have, but for some reason the Powerbook will not boot from it, neither with the boot choser (alt / opt) or from Open firmware. Not so strange perhaps, as the Plextor drive doesn't show up in Open Firmware at all (it works nicely on a lot of Intel machines, but that is off topic here). For my second try, I simply used dd to copy the FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1.iso image to a usb memory stick I have, and that worked better. It will not boot from the boot choser (alt / opt on boot), but it will boot from Open firmware, after I have figured out where it lives in the device tree and made an alias for it. The commands I used were: devalias ud /pci@f2000000/usb@1b,1-disk@1 boot ud:,\boot\loader ud:0 More info at my FreeBSD pag for the Powerbook[2]. References: 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powerbook_g4 2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powerbook_g4_freebsd -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen