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Cc: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD/powerpc from external FireWire drive?
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On Oct 4, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>=20
>> Any clues as to why booting from the OpenFirmware prompt is not =
working?
>=20
> Try the ofw pathname suggested at =
http://markmail.org/message/j4tpjpbhxobnxixu
>=20
> later,
>=20
> Peter.

Thank you!  Using the above information, and a suggestion from Daniel =
(fbsd23@sol42.com) re: copying /boot/loader from the install CD to the =
root directory of the Mac OS X install, I am able to boot from the =
external FW drive via this command:

	boot hd:,\loader fw/node/sbp-2/disk@0:3

without having to remember to have the install CD loaded, too.  It would =
be nice to be able to have \loader loaded from the external FW drive, =
too, but this solution works.

Many thanks to everyone who helped.

Cheers,

Paul.