Re: after running the installer on a PowerMac G5 no root filesystem found

Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2018-Nov-14, at 10:21, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:

> On 11/14/18 12:52 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc wrote:
>> On 2018-Nov-14, at 09:15, Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen at macmic.franken.de> wrote:
>>>> On 14. Nov 2018, at 18:02, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:52:45 -0500
>>>> Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> <snip>
>> FYI: I never saw such an issue for as far as I've gotten with the
>> powerpc's.
> 
> I may have other problems here : https://i.imgur.com/Gsvskz1.png

You had originally written:

QUOTE
I tried to enter ufs:/dev/adas2
END QUOTE

Using my context as an example:

# gpart show -p
=>       18  937703070    ada0  APM  (447G)
         18       1600  ada0s2  apple-boot  (800K)
       1618        430          - free -  (215K)
       2048  803209216  ada0s3  freebsd-ufs  (383G)
  803211264   35651584  ada0s4  freebsd-swap  (17G)
  838862848   98840240          - free -  (47G)

in my context it would be: ufs:/dev/ada0s3

In other words: the ufs partition to use as the root file
system --not the apple-boot partition. So "3", not "2"
for the above context.

It is probably an E-mail typo but the "adas2" is missing
a "0" based on the picture.

And oddity of the handling of the apple partitioning is
the -i index vs. the M in the /dev/adaNsM naming. Again
my context:

# gpart show
=>       18  937703070  ada0  APM  (447G)
         18       1600     1  apple-boot  (800K)
       1618        430        - free -  (215K)
       2048  803209216     2  freebsd-ufs  (383G)
  803211264   35651584     3  freebsd-swap  (17G)
  838862848   98840240        - free -  (47G)

So -i 2 in gpart for ada0 is for /dev/ada0s3 .

The picture did not show a "?" and its output so
the above are notes without consideration of such.

I will say that I've never tried storage media that had:

quirks=0x1<4K>

so I've no evidence of if it might matter for some
reason vs not.

> I have a box of new seagate disks here and will perhaps rip open the machine and try again after a remove and replace.


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)

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