Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4)

[Robin Stevens]

Alright guys. So I went home, and did as instructed, but now I'm
getting an ofw error when I try to boot the loader.

CLAIM failed.

What the heck is this?

I'm trying to boot with:

boot hd:loader hd:3

(my freeBSD partition is on ads03 or something like that)

Any ideas?

-- Robin

On 11/7/07, Robin Stevens <voltechs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
>