Initially setting up power pc

Jens Rehsack rehsack at liwing.de
Mon Oct 6 03:45:23 PDT 2003


Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> 
>>> 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?
> 
> 
>  'make release' doesn't work for PPC yet, so it's not really possible
> to build an ISO without a lot of manual effort.
> 
>  That being said, it's all moot if the loader doesn't work. What I'd suggest
> is trying to boot the FreeBSD loader from the IBM's open firmware prompt. I have no
> idea how to do that, so I guess it's worth scanning Linux archives.

Hm, I could start a research if setting up harddisk is definitively
impossible. What I'm currently interested in is, how do I labeling
the disk to get started?

>>Linux/PPC runs fine, since 2000.
> 
> OK, that should at least give you a start wrt to how to bootstrap the system.

wrt?
Don't understood.

> later,
> 
> Peter.

Jens



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