o power/93203 ppc FreeBSD PPC Can't Write to Partitions.

[Super Biscuit]

Now that's some killer news.

--- On Tue, 4/20/10, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: o power/93203 ppc FreeBSD PPC Can't Write to Partitions.
To: freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 1:17 AM

On 04/19/10 19:42, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Super Biscuit<super_bisquit at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>    
>>   If you can get someone to port gpart from little endian to big endian, then it can be added to cd1 and boot-only. The code is dirty. I managed for the first header file to be built.
>> 
>> Just throwing this out there.
>> And thanks for helping me with my problems on installing.
>>      
> This might be something to ask about on freebsd-geom as this sounds
> like a project worthy for other BE architectures like ARM (can be) and
> MIPS (can be).
>    

gpart actually works perfectly fine on big-endian systems, including PPC. It turns out it wasn't in the install CD mfsroot, and thus not accessible from the fixit shell, so I've put some new install CDs from today's -CURRENT here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/FreeBSD-9.0-20100418-SNAP-powerpc/

The directions at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ppcinstall.txt should then apply to real CDs that you can download. The addition of gpart will make it into 8.1-RELEASE as well.
-Nathan

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