FreeBSD on my old rusty PowerBook 12"

[Nathan Whitehorn]

Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:01:36PM -0500, Ross Gohlke wrote:
>> Do you have an old Mac OS X Installer disc? If so, it contains Disk 
>> Utility, which will allow you to partition the drive, creating a small 
>> HFS partition and as many UFS(2) partitions as you want. You will need 
>> to know the identities of each partition when you get to sysinstall. You 
>> can do this in Disk Utility by selecting each new partition and clicking 
>> Info.
>>
>> Older versions (10.1, 10.2) of OS X might use UFS, I'm pretty sure newer 
>> versions use UFS2. Regardless, Disk Utility simply calls it UNIX File 
>> System.
>>
>> This is the first I've heard of ADB support, and I don't own a USB 
>> keyboard; I used Disk Utility in Tiger (10.4) to create a dual-boot 
>> drive, so the HFS partition wasn't a problem.
> 
> This sounds like fun.  I'd like to be able to dual-boot between OSX and
> FreeBSD.  Is this procedure documented somewhere (wiki maybe)?  Looks
> like I have to create three partitions: 800K strapping one, OSX HFS+,
> FreeBSD UFS2.  Does the loader in 800K needs any treatment to see both
> OSes and be able to select which one to boot?

The CHRP boot script in the boot1 block I was discussing earlier lets 
you choose an OS at boot using the standard OF menu system (i.e. press 
Option at boot time and choose a partition). I haven't added niceties 
like an appropriate icon yet, though.
-Nathan