Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:00:32 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac mini and FreeBSD - some initial details Message-ID: <p0620073ebe1a3c891476@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <41F48ACF.1050209@freebsd.org> References: <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> <p06200731be1731cf8ec8@[128.113.24.47]> <p06200739be1a164f1ed0@[128.113.24.47]> <p0620073bbe1a2d5c8606@[128.113.24.47]> <41F48ACF.1050209@freebsd.org>
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At 3:42 PM +1000 1/24/05, Peter Grehan wrote: >Hi Garance, Hello again.. thanks for all the quick replies! :-) >>I couldn't get the second one to work for me. In my case, I have >>a MacOS 10 install on hd #9, with freebsd on hd #5. The following >>did seem to work: >> >> 0 > boot hd:9,loader hd:5 > > The "hd:" without a partition number signifies the default bootable >partition on the drive. The value can be seen at the OFW prompt with > >0 > printenv boot-volume Mine seems to be partition 3. I do have another install of MacOS on partition 3, but the default-one (as set by "Startup Disk") was pointing at the one on partition 9. It is probably true that I installed MacOS on partition 3 before partition 9. Note that partition 3 is a stripped-down install, so maybe it's missing something. partition 9 is the full-install of MacOS. > .. and the contents found with: > >0 > dir hd: This tells me "dir hd: DIR method failed" > Also, try: > >0 > printenv boot-device Mine is: pci2/ata-6@D/@0:9,\\:tbxi hd:,\\:tbxi >>I have tried to come up with some kind of trick where I could select >>a MacOS 10 partition, and have the machine boot up the freebsd boot >>loader instead of the MacOS 10 kernel, but none of those tricks have >>worked... > > I haven't mucked around too much with this, but I suspect you need >a Forth script similar to src/release/powerpc/boot.tbxi which would >live on the default boot partition. Then, you could setenv the >'boot-command' variable in OpenFirmware to boot with this file. Hmm. Is there somewhere which would document what openfirmware commands I might have to play with? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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