Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:56:13 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD/powerpc from external FireWire drive? Message-ID: <20101005195613.22292695.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <07BF978E-D458-4138-8871-00D5AC1106C0@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <40D5CC15-8828-4CFD-AE13-2211B9742AE2@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20101001150548.6a652cba@anacreon.physics.wisc.edu> <5F44B27D-0A14-4F59-8EA2-2D52ADC4C79D@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <4CAA4828.3010906@freebsd.org> <07BF978E-D458-4138-8871-00D5AC1106C0@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:16:31 -0400 Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote: > It would be nice to be able to have \loader loaded from the external FW drive, too, but this solution works. Well, if you follow the instructions[1] at the PPC wiki page[2], to create a small Apple bootstrap partition on your firewire drive, does it not work? The commands are (example substitue your own drive) : gpart add -s 800K -t apple-boot ad0 gpart bootcode -p /mnt/boot/boot1.hfs -i <index of boot partition> ad0 Note; I have only done this on an internal disk, so I don't know if it works for external disks too. My sequence was: gpart add -s 800K -t '!Apple_Bootstrap' ad1 dd if=/boot/boot1.hfs of=/dev/ad1s2 (this was back in June, so perhaps 'gpart bootcode' didn't work then?) References: 1) http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ppcinstall.txt 2) http://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
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