Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:03:27 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac mini and FreeBSD - some initial details Message-ID: <p0620073bbe1a2d5c8606@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <p06200739be1a164f1ed0@[128.113.24.47]> References: <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> <p06200731be1731cf8ec8@[128.113.24.47]> <p06200739be1a164f1ed0@[128.113.24.47]>
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At 10:55 PM -0500 1/23/05, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >It downloaded the files, installed everything, and I could reboot >the system. Further information on what you might want to do at that >point are described in: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/miniinst.txt The instructions in this file includes the section: a) leave the CD in the drive, break into OpenFirmware at boot, and 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:11 (or hd:X, where X is the partition number that FreeBSD was installed on) or b) Boot into OSX and copy /boot/loader from the miniinst CD into / on OSX. Reboot, break into OpenFirmware, and 0 > boot hd:loader hd:11 I couldn't get the second one to work for me. In my case, I have a MacOS 10 install on hd #9, with freebsd on hd #5. The following did seem to work: 0 > boot hd:9,loader hd:5 in fact, I copied the /boot/loader file into a file called /fbsd_loader on that MacOS 10 installation, just so it'd be more obvious the file had nothing to do with MacOS 10. So, I use 'fbsd_loader' instead of 'loader' in the above. I have tried to come up with some kind of trick where I could select a MacOS 10 partition, and have the machine boot up the freebsd boot loader instead of the MacOS 10 kernel, but none of those tricks have worked... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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