From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 05:03:31 2005 Return-Path: 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 628EE16A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:03:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D842F43D41 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:03:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0O53SVX021673 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:03:30 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:03:27 -0500 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Mac mini and FreeBSD - some initial details X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:03:31 -0000 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