Initially setting up power pc

[Jens Rehsack]

Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> 
>>as I asked in May, is their any chance for me to setup a cd or hard
>>disk to get my IBM 43p booting a freebsd? My question is: how do I
>>cross-compile my src-tree and how do I have to set up the hard disk
>>I put in the machine (or how do I create a cd-image, because 'make
>>isoimage' seems not to work or I'm to stupid for this)?
> 
> 
>  To cross-compile the source tree:
> 
>  #  make -DNOLIBC_R TARGET_ARCH=powerpc buildworld
>  #  make -DNOLIBC_R TARGET_ARCH=powerpc buildkernel

Ok, than it's build. How do I get this into the machine?

>  Now, since this is an IBM Power machine, and unsupported by FreeBSD/PPC,
> the first step is probably to see if the FreeBSD loader will be accepted
> by OpenFirmware. The best bet would be to see if you could get Linux
> up and running on the box, since that would provide an environment where
> you could gather info on how to boot the box and it's h/w internals.

Linux/PPC runs fine, since 2000.

Best,
Jens