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

Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no
Mon Mar 14 20:47:36 UTC 2011


On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:33:59 -0500
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> There is the OF menu (hold down option), but the FreeBSD boot block is 
> currently hard-coded to boot from the first UFS partition on the disk it 
> is on, so this only works for multi-disk setups or multi-booting into 
> Linux and OS X.


And that FreeBSD boot block is generated by the files in 
/usr/src/sys/boot/powerpc/boot1.chrp
right?
-- 
Torfinn



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