Booting on Mac

[Justin Hibbits]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:49:53PM +0200, Jochen Fahrner wrote:
> Hi,
> booting FreeBSD on Mac is not really comfortable. A friend of mine  
> told me that Fedora installs "yaboot", that is a boot manager like  
> GRUB for Linux-i386. Isn't something like that available for FreeBSD  
> PPC?
> 
> If not, would it be possible to patch the FreeBSD bootonly CD to boot  
> the kernel from harddisc? I think this should be easy, but I cannot  
> find the right file where I can change the location of the kernel.
> 
> Leaving the boot CD always in the drive and pressing "C" on power on,  
> is always better than pressing "Opt-CMD-O-F" and entering cryptic  
> commands with a german keyboard that has some non-alphabetic  
> characters in the wrong place. :-(
> 
> Jochen

There is a bootloader, but it's not the easiest thing to install at the moment.
Take a look at the following mailing list thread:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2008-October/003256.html

You don't need to update your source if you have a recent snapshot, but the rest
of the instructions will make things work.

- Justin