Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:00:42 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Jochen Fahrner <freebsd@fahrners.de> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on iMac G3 Message-ID: <49E0BEAA.7030001@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1239463626.24591.1310047137@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1239463626.24591.1310047137@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Jochen Fahrner wrote: > Hi, > > >> Given the error message, it's worth a try at least. The sysctl is for >> ignoring the mmap checks, and is most needed by the Radeon driver, but >> given the error message, it would probably work for the Rage as well. >> > > > Ok, I will give it a second try. Just deleted my Gentoo > installation. ;-) > > But the Gentoo boot disc has a nice mac-fdisk. So you can get rid of > the dozens of tiny slices that Apple disk utility creates on the disk > (for booting OS 9 and such things). > > Can someone mail me the HFS bootloader mentioned here? > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2008-October/003256.html > > It's not on the sources from cd. And cvsup-without-gui cannot be > installed on PPC. (why that?) > I first want to try if the basic things work, before I do the long > Xorg compile. > You can find it at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/boot1.hfs.bz2. It's 800K after decompression, and should be dd'ed onto a free partition somewhere on your disk, of type Apple_Bootstrap or Apple_HFS. You should be able to use the gpart utility in FreeBSD to add one (pass the type as !Apple_Bootstrap), or use the Gentoo mac-fdisk utility. The reason that it isn't in 7.2 is that it hasn't been MFC'ed yet -- most of this kind of work that has been done lately was done in 8.0-CURRENT, and I haven't had time to MFC a lot of it (like the boot loader) or to update sysinstall to support it. cvsup-without-gui isn't available on PPC due to lack of Modula-3 support, but you will find that csup, which is included in the base system, is a drop in replacement. If you could provide a dmesg, and a description of the crash you mentioned earlier, that would be appreciated as well. Good luck! -Nathan
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