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> In-Reply-To: <3F82B069.9040905@liwing.de> References: <3F7C08B9.6080803@liwing.de> <3F7D1D7E.11616929@freebsd.org> <3F7D1F45.7060004@liwing.de> <3F81438B.331EC2A5@freebsd.org> <3F8147BF.5030606@liwing.de> <3F8290CC.3F507979@freebsd.org> <3F82B069.9040905@liwing.de>
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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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --- "Never trust a man who can count to 1024 on his fingers." ---
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