bootloader installation

[Horst Günther Burkhardt III]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:51 +0200, Marco Trillo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Horst Günther Burkhardt III
> <horst at sxemacs.org> wrote:
> > Also, as I don't any longer have OS X there, can I boot into the freebsd
> > that is on the hard disk, using the cd, from OF somehow, just until I
> > install the loader?
> 
> Sure. Just use "boot cd:0,\boot\loader hd:Y" where Y is the FreeBSD
> partition number.
> 
> You can also install the loader from FreeBSD using "hfsutils".

This is a problem. doing this from the OF console (btw, it's partition
number 11 on disk 0 (disk0s11)) results in the following: 

DISK-LABEL: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1

LOAD-SIZE is too small
  ok
0 > 


... I've tried all numbers after hd up to 16. Should I be specifying the
device to read too? (the physical medium?) If so, how?

(disk0s10 : HFS+ 64MB) txbi? 
(disk0s11 : UFS2 40GB) /
(disk1s10 : SWAP  4GB) 
(disk1s11 : UFS2 56GB) /usr 


> >
> > Another question, does the loader have to reside in the same place as
> > the /boot directory? or can I leave /boot on the / UFS2 partition
> > andmerely use the loader?
> >
> 
> The loader resides in a HFS partition, which is not the /boot
> partition. You do not need a /boot partition, you can leave /boot in
> the / partition.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Marco.

Thanks, most helpful. Unfortunately as said above it didn't quite go off
without a hitch. :(
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