Powermac B&W G3 install status and questions

[Super Biscuit]

Ok.
I've tried the options with the root and boot partitions.
Loading with hd:2 sends me to a commands option.

The shell on the install cd only allow me to run cd and install.
Which server will have the live image-iso for powerpc?

I see the kernel in /boot/kernel but it doesn't load.

Would it be better to download the bootfile and write it to the partition using a live cd?



--- On Thu, 4/15/10, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:

From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu>
Subject: Re: Powermac B&W G3 install status and questions
To: "Super Biscuit" <super_bisquit at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Richard DeLaurell" <richard.delaurell at gmail.com>, freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:39 PM

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Super Biscuit <super_bisquit at yahoo.com> wrote:

The suggestion didn't work; but, thanks for replying.

boot hd:3,\\:tbxi DISK-LABEL: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1

LOAD-SIZE is too small

ok

0 >





--- On Thu, 4/15/10, Richard DeLaurell <richard.delaurell at gmail.com> wrote:



From: Richard DeLaurell <richard.delaurell at gmail.com>

Subject: Re: Powermac B&W G3 install status and questions

To: "Super Biscuit" <super_bisquit at yahoo.com>

Cc: freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org

Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:00 PM



I am working from memory here, but I believe your boot command should look something like this:



boot hd:#,\\:tbxi



# is (I believe) the disk partition you're booting from; that should be the location of your tbxi file.





This would be if you placed the tbxi file in the base directory on the #th partition of your 1st hard drive.



As I say, this is from memory since my G3 died quite a while ago.



I am sorry if this is not helpful.





Good luck--



Richard DeLaurell



On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Super Biscuit <super_bisquit at yahoo.com> wrote:





I've been able to install 8.0 powerpc to a G3 with 384M RAM.



Apologies beforehand, there are a few questions.



What is the open firmware command for booting?



Mac-boot repeats a bad partition error.



Should I have created a /boot partition?



Currently, only a base system is installed.







Will it be better to use an older release?







If you need the system stats, I can post them. It will have to be done through a Linux dmesg output.

You may need to boot through the CD.  I don't know if the 8.0 installer installs a bootstrap partition, so try something like:

boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:3
This will use the boot CD's loader, and boot to hd:3 (/dev/ad0s3) as the root.
You may also want to look at http://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc, which has a link to a new install guide for ppc.

- Justin