Extreme difficulty with partitioning on mac powerpc g4.

[Justin Hibbits]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:03:56PM +1000, Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote:
> a) Is there a known workaround?
> ` - b) If there is, why are there no docs anywhere on the internet?
>    ` - c) If (following either assistance or dumb luck) I get it 
>           working, would a "walkthrough" be welcomed? (see lack of docs)
>  |- d) If no known workaround, are there any suggestions from the ppc
>        devs and users on this ML?
> 
> Extra info: this is a Power Mac G4 (ADC/Gigabit Ethernet) with two
> harddrives: one 40GB and one 60GB. 
> 
> My intended partition layout is: 
> 
> /----------------
> IDE0 Master: 40GB
> -----------------
> Partition 0: (smallest amount possible) (whatever's needed to allow
>                                          autoboot into FreeBSD, I've
>                                          nuked OS X)
> 
> Partition 1: (the remainder)            FreeBSD UFS2, mountpoint /
> 
> 
> 
> IDE0 Slave : 60GB
> -----------------
> Partition 0:  2GB      FreeBSD swap
> Partition 1: 58GB      FreeBSD UFS2, mountpoint /usr 
> \----------------

I don't think partitioning is supported on ppc yet.  Better to use the OS X Disk
Utility, or another PPC partitioner before installing FreeBSD.

> --Horst.

- Justin