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[50.80.150.234]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e35sm8878200iod.32.2016.11.06.12.40.02 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sun, 06 Nov 2016 12:40:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 14:39:58 -0600 From: Justin Hibbits To: Roger Leigh Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: Installer problems with 11.0-RC3 Message-ID: <20161106143958.099cdd03@zhabar.knownspace> In-Reply-To: <747f3eaa-251c-5740-0755-09bba55a5b04@codelibre.net> References: <725c6225-c7bf-f88f-d8e2-b5f9a02bcfe8@codelibre.net> <20160917184649.35d9a9ab@zhabar.knownspace> <88b054f6-ae0b-dc32-8d54-016964a2cea8@codelibre.net> <747f3eaa-251c-5740-0755-09bba55a5b04@codelibre.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; powerpc64-portbld-freebsd12.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 20:40:04 -0000 On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:00:13 +0000 Roger Leigh wrote: > On 18/09/2016 09:04, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On 17/09/2016 23:46, Justin Hibbits wrote: > >> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:39:41 +0000 > >> Roger Leigh wrote: > >> > >>> Up until now, my G4 Mac Mini has been running 10.3-RELEASE. > >>> Today, I tried the 11.0-RC3 installer. Two issues noted: > >>> > >>> 1) The colours in the installer are different than the PC > >>> installer. The background is a mid brown with yellow text. An > >>> issue with the console framebuffer? > >>> > >>> 2) It won't boot after the installer finished. > >>> Invalid memory access at %SRR0: 018011f0 %SRR1: 00003030 > >> > >> I just fixed the second issue, which should be going into the next > >> ISO (RC4? Final? Not sure at this point), but the initial commit > >> was to head at r305894, and finally merged to 11.0 (by way of > >> stable/11) in r305904 if you're curious. > > > > Super, thanks. I'll retry this with the next ISO release. > > I got the time to retry with the 11.0-RELEASE ISO, and the above > problem is fixed, but unfortunately then hit a problem I'd previously > seen and posted on the list when testing 11.0-STABLE in > mid-September. The kernel loads and boots correctly, but it hangs at > this point: > > gem0: 10kB RX addr...... > gem0: Ethernet address ....... > cryptosoft0: on nexus0 > > At this point it just sits there with the CPU fan going full tilt. > I'm not sure what exactly the problem is here because I have no means > to debug it that I'm aware of at that point during the boot. Happy > to investigate further if anyone could provide any hints about what I > could do to assist. > > > Regards, > Roger Hi Roger, I just installed the latest FreeBSD-CURRENT snapshot for PowerPC (dated 10/31), and it seems to work just fine, so something was fixed in the kernel or loader between July-ish and now. When I get some time (probably won't be for a while) I'll try to bisect snapshots. If you're willing to test snapshot boots, you can try a -CURRENT snapshot from July, and bisect between then and now to possibly narrow down the fix window. - Justin