Hello,
I've been trying to install FreeBSD-9.0-20100418-SNAP-powerpc-disc1.iso on a 1.25GHz PowerPC Mac, but it seems there's confusion about which filesystem to use for Mac: HFS or HFS+?
First I boot the Mac with an Ubuntu 10.10 PPC live CD and format the harddisk as HFS. Then I boot from the FreeBSD CD, and it successfully boots with the FreeBSD/PowerPC Open Firmware loader. However, in the FreeBSD Disklabel Editor there's no harddisk or partition to be seen and no options (such as C - Create or A - autodefaults) ever work.
what could be wrong here?
My guess is, the HFS filesystem might be the problem because somewhere I've read that the Open Firmware loader understands only ISO 9660 and HFS+ filesystems.
I have tried formatting the harddisk for HFS+, but gparted of Ubuntu does not have that option. Actually it does have HFS+ among the options but it's grayed out, unusable.
So I'm stuck at this point.
Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
I've been trying to install FreeBSD-9.0-20100418-SNAP-powerpc-disc1.iso on a 1.25GHz PowerPC Mac, but it seems there's confusion about which filesystem to use for Mac: HFS or HFS+?
First I boot the Mac with an Ubuntu 10.10 PPC live CD and format the harddisk as HFS. Then I boot from the FreeBSD CD, and it successfully boots with the FreeBSD/PowerPC Open Firmware loader. However, in the FreeBSD Disklabel Editor there's no harddisk or partition to be seen and no options (such as C - Create or A - autodefaults) ever work.
what could be wrong here?
My guess is, the HFS filesystem might be the problem because somewhere I've read that the Open Firmware loader understands only ISO 9660 and HFS+ filesystems.
I have tried formatting the harddisk for HFS+, but gparted of Ubuntu does not have that option. Actually it does have HFS+ among the options but it's grayed out, unusable.
So I'm stuck at this point.
Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.