From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 06:25:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5677616A41F for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:25:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdnier@tds.net) Received: from outbound4.mail.tds.net (outbound4.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43CF43D49 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:25:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdnier@tds.net) Received: from outaamta01.mail.tds.net (outaamta01.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.31]) by outbound4.mail.tds.net (8.13.4/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j9V6PCpd000177 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:25:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from [66.222.24.193] by outaamta01.mail.tds.net with ESMTP id <20051031062511.QOCI15475.outaamta01.mail.tds.net@[66.222.24.193]> for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:25:11 -0600 Message-ID: <4365B8C5.2010304@tds.net> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:25:09 -0600 From: David Niergarth User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: First boot question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:25:13 -0000 Hello, Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from an external drive (Firewire)? How about a second internal drive (IDE)? The iso_install.txt file uses the following example: 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:11 "hd" appears to be a device alias for disk0. My question is how to specify disk1 or a Firewire drive? Thanks, --David