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

[Super Bisquit]

Okay, with boot1.txt, is it possible to set the exact partition number?

CHRP-BOOT>
<DESCRIPTION>FreeBSD/powerpc bootloader</DESCRIPTION>
<OS-NAME>FreeBSD</OS-NAME>
<VERSION> $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/powerpc/boot1.chrp/bootinfo.txt,v 1.2
2008/10/$

<COMPATIBLE>
MacRISC MacRISC3 MacRISC4
</COMPATIBLE>
<BOOT-SCRIPT>
" screen" output
boot &device;:&partition;,\ppc\boot1.elf  <-- here to such as /dev/ad0s12 as
an additional argument??
</BOOT-SCRIPT>
</CHRP-BOOT>
 And can ufsread.c be modified to allow such as booting from another
partition?

Can one use ffs instead of ufs2 and have a separate boot for what tingo
asked?

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Super Bisquit <superbisquit at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 3/14/11, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:48:24 -0400
> > Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Don't quote me on it, but you might be able to use forth scripts on
> >> the 'primary' FreeBSD install's root to do what you're asking,
> >> possibly modifying one of the scripts in ...sys/boot/forth.
> >
> > Aha, so there isn't a simple boot manager available (like 'boot0' for
> i386)?
> Make the assumption that the bootloader will look for the closest
> kernel. Try setting up the partitions first and then seeing how
> sysinstall looks at it.
> > I would like this to be as painless as possible, once set up.
> > --
> > Torfinn
> >
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