Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:06:07 -0400 From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting on Mac Message-ID: <20090410180607.GD46038@narn.knownspace> In-Reply-To: <C2CA3239-6423-4B5D-A066-A05E9F60704D@fahrners.de> References: <C2CA3239-6423-4B5D-A066-A05E9F60704D@fahrners.de>
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:49:53PM +0200, Jochen Fahrner wrote: > Hi, > booting FreeBSD on Mac is not really comfortable. A friend of mine > told me that Fedora installs "yaboot", that is a boot manager like > GRUB for Linux-i386. Isn't something like that available for FreeBSD > PPC? > > If not, would it be possible to patch the FreeBSD bootonly CD to boot > the kernel from harddisc? I think this should be easy, but I cannot > find the right file where I can change the location of the kernel. > > Leaving the boot CD always in the drive and pressing "C" on power on, > is always better than pressing "Opt-CMD-O-F" and entering cryptic > commands with a german keyboard that has some non-alphabetic > characters in the wrong place. :-( > > Jochen There is a bootloader, but it's not the easiest thing to install at the moment. Take a look at the following mailing list thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2008-October/003256.html You don't need to update your source if you have a recent snapshot, but the rest of the instructions will make things work. - Justin
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