Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:24:09 +0000
From:      Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
To:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Initially setting up power pc
Message-ID:  <3F82B069.9040905@liwing.de>
In-Reply-To: <3F8290CC.3F507979@freebsd.org>
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3F82B069.9040905>