bootloader installation

[Marco Trillo]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Horst Günther Burkhardt III
<horst at sxemacs.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:51 +0200, Marco Trillo wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Horst Günther Burkhardt III
>> <horst at sxemacs.org> wrote:
>> > Also, as I don't any longer have OS X there, can I boot into the freebsd
>> > that is on the hard disk, using the cd, from OF somehow, just until I
>> > install the loader?
>>
>> Sure. Just use "boot cd:0,\boot\loader hd:Y" where Y is the FreeBSD
>> partition number.
>>
>> You can also install the loader from FreeBSD using "hfsutils".
>
> This is a problem. doing this from the OF console (btw, it's partition
> number 11 on disk 0 (disk0s11)) results in the following:
>
> DISK-LABEL: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1
>
> LOAD-SIZE is too small
>  ok
> 0 >
>

Try "boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:11", without the "0".

Hope that helps,
Marco.