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Date:      Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:11:04 -0700 (MST)
From:      James Sarrett <James.Sarrett@asu.edu>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Initially setting up power pc
Message-ID:  <1065553864.3f830fc86794f@webmail.asu.edu>
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Just as a point of clarification, the 43p is not typical of the rs/6000 line.  
the 43p and several others do use OpenFirmware, but the RS/6000 line has had 
many diffrent HAL's including ARC and a weird IBM one for the RISCPC series.

-James
Quoting Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>:

> Peter Grehan wrote:
> > Hi Jens,
> > 
> > 
> >>Hm, I could start a research if setting up harddisk is definitively
> >>impossible. What I'm currently interested in is, how do I labeling
> >>the disk to get started?
> > 
> > 
> >  Sorry, I don't know what format disks should be on IBM rs/6k
> machines.
> > 
> > 
> >>>>Linux/PPC runs fine, since 2000.
> >>>
> >>>OK, that should at least give you a start wrt to how to bootstrap the
> system.
> >>
> >>wrt?
> >>Don't understood.
> > 
> > 
> >  Linux already has the boot process working on this machine, so if you
> can
> > work out how it occurs (e.g. what OpenFirmware commands are needed,
> what
> > format the loader is in etc), it should help in understanding what is
> needed
> > to get FreeBSD to boot.
> 
> The loader is the same as for PowerMacs. At least, it's documented
> that way in the manual. So creating an cd-image for PowerMac should
> work with the 43p machines (and above).
> 
> Jens
> 
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