From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 04:14:53 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 5261716A4CE; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:14:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACD943D1F; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:14:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0O4EpYr011073; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:14:52 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <41F47300.3050406@freebsd.org> References: <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> <41F3AFBD.60505@freebsd.org> <41F47300.3050406@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:14:50 -0500 To: Peter Grehan From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac mini and FreeBSD - dmesg.boot! 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: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:14:53 -0000 At 2:01 PM +1000 1/24/05, Peter Grehan wrote: >Hi Garance, > >>Heh. Well, it isn't a bummer yet! I wasn't giving up at that >>point, I just had to head home due to the storm. >> >>After futzing around for a few hours, I have the following in >>/var/run/dmesg.boot in a partition on my mini-Mac. I bought >>the faster model (1.42 GHz PowerPC G4). I have it setup in a >>multi-boot situation, between MacOS 10 and FreeBSD/PPC. I'm >>still futzing around with it, and I may not have it set up quite >>right yet, but FreeBSD/PPC is up and running on it! > > Good to hear. Did you have to work around the problem with >disks not being found ? Just in case my earlier message was confusing, note that it was only the CD/DVD drive that the installer could not find, or at least it could not recognize. It had no problem finding the hard disk. I wrote up most of the tricks I had to use in a separate message, with the subject of "Mac mini and FreeBSD - some initial details"... It's possible that I will reformat the disk and redo all of these installs, so I could try to write up more details if it's needed. Oh, one more thing I noticed. When I reboot back into MacOS 10, it still shows the two freebsd partitions, and it claims they are formatted as "MacOS Extended (Journalled)". I am *pretty* sure that I originally had DiskUtility format them as "Unix File System", so I find that a little odd. However, I did repartition the disk several times, so maybe I created those partitions as HFS+ on my final time. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu