Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4)

[Robin Stevens]

Oh no Sh*t!!!

I was trying to put the loader on the "root" or the FreeBSD partition.
Wow, ok, It finally makes sense :) I'll see how that goes when I get
home. Thanks!

-- Robin

On 11/7/07, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Robin,
>
> > When I got home, I reformatted my drives, and partitioned into 3 sections:
> >
> > swap UFS
> > root HSF+
> > Mac OS X Extended+Journalized.
>
>   Other than the partition that is running OSX, the types of the other
> partitions don't matter. FreeBSD treats them as raw partitions without
> respect to what type they have been set to in the partition table.
>
> > well, needless to say, that didn't seem to work. After it was all
> > installed, I couldn't mount those partitions from OS X. The weird
> > thing was that I couldn't mount root. Swap seemed to be ok. So, I went
> > into Disk Utility, and wiped root. Made sure it was still HSF+, and
> > rebooted. I tried installing FreeBSD again, and it went smoothly. When
> > I came back into OS X, there was nothing in root. It was completely
> > empty. Why!!?!?
>
>   OSX can't understand FreeBSD's UFS format, so it won't mount the volume.
>
>   The next thing to do is to
>
>    - boot OSX
>    - mount the FreeBSD install CD
>    - copy /boot/loader from the CDROM to /loader on OSX
>    - reboot into OpenFirmware
>    - remembering the partition number that FreeBSD root lives on (e.g. 8
> for the purposes of this example)
>
>       0 > boot hd:loader hd:8
>
>   .. and then you should be away.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>