Powermac B&W G3 install status and questions

[Justin Hibbits]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Super Biscuit <super_bisquit at yahoo.com>wrote:

> The suggestion didn't work; but, thanks for replying.
> boot hd:3,\\:tbxi DISK-LABEL: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0
> adler32=1
> LOAD-SIZE is too small
> ok
> 0 >
>
>
> --- On Thu, 4/15/10, Richard DeLaurell <richard.delaurell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> From: Richard DeLaurell <richard.delaurell at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Powermac B&W G3 install status and questions
> To: "Super Biscuit" <super_bisquit at yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org
> Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:00 PM
>
> I am working from memory here, but I believe your boot command should look
> something like this:
>
> boot hd:#,\\:tbxi
>
> # is (I believe) the disk partition you're booting from; that should be the
> location of your tbxi file.
>
>
> This would be if you placed the tbxi file in the base directory on the #th
> partition of your 1st hard drive.
>
> As I say, this is from memory since my G3 died quite a while ago.
>
> I am sorry if this is not helpful.
>
>
> Good luck--
>
> Richard DeLaurell
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Super Biscuit <super_bisquit at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> I've been able to install 8.0 powerpc to a G3 with 384M RAM.
>
> Apologies beforehand, there are a few questions.
>
> What is the open firmware command for booting?
>
> Mac-boot repeats a bad partition error.
>
> Should I have created a /boot partition?
>
> Currently, only a base system is installed.
>
>
>
> Will it be better to use an older release?
>
>
>
> If you need the system stats, I can post them. It will have to be done
> through a Linux dmesg output.
>

You may need to boot through the CD.  I don't know if the 8.0 installer
installs a bootstrap partition, so try something like:

boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:3

This will use the boot CD's loader, and boot to hd:3 (/dev/ad0s3) as the
root.

You may also want to look at http://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc, which has a
link to a new install guide for ppc.

- Justin