Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:03:27 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Ben Rosengart <ben+freebsd.org@narcissus.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP; autoboot Message-ID: <4354902F.5000803@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051018045932.GB44746@absinthe.tinho.net> References: <20051016012933.GB31458@absinthe.tinho.net> <4351BBF3.8060003@freebsd.org> <20051018045932.GB44746@absinthe.tinho.net>
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Hi Ben, > I'll have to install FreeBSD on my Cube -- has anyone tried that?) There was a report a while back: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2004-December/000760.html I would guess that it should install fine: the h/w is almost identical to the G4 tower systems from that era and they run OK. > Thanks ... hm, with the CHRP script, he has to type > > 0 > boot hd:,\freebsd.tbxi > > while I type > > 0 > boot hd:loader hd:6 > > without a script. It's not at all clear to me that he's better off > than I am. :-) With only a single argument to boot, the 'bootdev' environment variable can be set to 'hd:,\freebsd.tbxi', and 'autoboot?' set to true. This allows an automatic boot into FreeBSD with no need to drop into OpenFirmware. I guess that wasn't really mentioned in the article, but it was most of the way there :) later, Peter.
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