PowerPC, gpart and multiboot (Was: Trying to install FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 on a PowerMac G5)

[Super Bisquit]

I don't see why not.  Gpart acts funny at times; so, you may want to
use a Debain CD to make an empty partiton as a buffer then add a
bootstrap, root, swap, and other partitons.
After I finish building kde4, I'll try a multiboot of freebsd on my
G4. I think you also need to mark the partitons as not use or
something.
http://onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/09/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

There.

Hopefully, the others on this mailing list will show you a better way.


On 3/13/11, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:08:10 +0100
> Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
>
>> Cool.
>> Next question: can you multiboot several FreeBSD versions too?
>> (ie, do you get a FreeBSD boot meny that allows you to select which
>> "slice" to boot?)
>
> I am still interested in the answer to this question:
> is it possible to get a boot menu on a PPC Mac that allows you select from
> several partitions on the same hard
> drive, which one to boot from - all partitions have FreeBSD on them?
>
> That would allow me to run bot FreeBSD 8.x and -current on my PowerMac G5.
>
> --
> Torfinn
>
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