Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4)

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 9 14:11:30 PST 2007


Hi Garance,

> Shouldn't that first parameter include a partition number?  (I realize
> that what you typed in is exactly what was said in some earlier
> message, but I'm not sure that was correct)
> 
> I do:
> 
>   boot hd:3,loader hd:5
>           ^
>           partition number, before the ",filename"

  Doesn't have to be. If no partition is specified, Ofw will use the one 
marked as the default in the partition table, which is usually the one 
used for OSX.

later,

Peter.




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