FreeBSD on an external Firewire HD

[Rickey Bartlett]

Hold that... I might have found the answer.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2006-February/001552.html

Rickey

On 8/6/06, Rickey Bartlett <subtexel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, turns out it was a bad keyboard. That part is fixed. Now here's some
> more problems...
>
> Now when I boot into FreeBSD I get errors about "Operation not permitted"
> during bootup when it's trying to mount /var /usr and /tmp. I had the same
> errors during the install after setting them up in Disk labeler (I only
> created two partitions on the external firewire HD under Mac OSX as Unix
> File System). It dumps me to the default shell (/usr/bin/sh), and thats it.
> I can grab an IP for my built in ethernet (pretty sweet!) but thats about
> all I can do, trying to grab a port tarball with portsnap leaves it hung at
> extracting. Is this all there is for FreeBSD on PPC? Or did I miss something
> horribly simple, and bork my install?
>
>
> Rickey
>
> On 8/5/06, Rickey Bartlett <subtexel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Still doesnt work... (just to make sure I am doing this correctly, 'set
> > hint.pcib.1.skipslot=26' and then I issue the command boot).
> >
> > Rickey
> >
> >
> > On 8/5/06, Rickey Bartlett < subtexel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Gah. don't know where I got that from, let me try it and give an
> > > update.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Rickey
> > >
> > >
> > > On 8/5/06, Peter Grehan < grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I have tried booting with an
> > > > > external USB keyboard, disabling the bluetooth with hint
> > > > > pcib.1.slotnumber=26 at the loader portion
> > > >
> > > >   Should be: hint.pcib.1.skipslot=26
> > > >
> > > > later,
> > > >
> > > > Peter.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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