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

[Super Bisquit]

Apologies. It was a set of questions for (Nathan) Whitehorn as to
whether or not the boot directory could be set for an exact partition,
if ufsread.c had to be modified, and if another filesystem can be used
in the place of ufs2.
On 3/18/11, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:36:59 -0400
> Super Bisquit <superbisquit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Okay, with boot1.txt, is it possible to set the exact partition number?
>
> boot1.txt is just the boot script, which OFW (Open Firmware) uses to load
> boot1.elf
> boot1.elf is the real boot "loader" (if I have figured this out correctly),
> so I suspect we need to look at that, and figure out how it decides which
> partition to boot from.
> Look at /usr/src/sys/boot/powerpc/boot1.chrp/boot1.c
> for the source.
>
>>  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?
>
> Sorry, I do not know the answers to those questions.
> --
> Torfinn
>
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