Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:41:14 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Message-ID: <20000220164114.G36373@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002201454420.28329-100000@beebite.ugh.net.au>; from andrew@ugh.net.au on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 02:55:18PM %2B1000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002201454420.28329-100000@beebite.ugh.net.au>
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On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 02:55:18PM +1000, andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install a 4.0 SNAP on my iBook using Lismore Software's Blue > Label Power Emulator (v 1.5 + the components update). I disable all the > devices I dont have using the visual kernel configuration and the kernel > seems to boot fine, finding all my devices. It then prints the message: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c > > and hangs. The previous message was the detection of my CDROM. I'm using > the 2.88 MB boot.flp. > > I can boot using a 3.4 boot floppy and get the installer to install 4.0 > and everything goes OK until it comes to running MAKEDEV where sh exits > with unknown syscall. I assume this is because the installer is running > the sh it just installed (the 4.0 sh) on a 3 kernel. > > I can install 3.4 using the 3.4 installer OK but FreeBSD wont boot > afterwards. After the line "Booting [kernel]" it prints the values of the > registers to the screen and says "System Halted". It does this twice. I > havent included a transcript but if it might help I will copy it out. > > On a probably unrelated matter, if I have the FPU switched on in the > emulator with full optimisation FreeBSD says: > > npx0: error reporting broken; using 387 emulator > > but continues to boot. If I have standard optimisation on FreeBSD freezes > after detecting npx0..the line about 16 somethings...switching the FPU off > in the emulator solves all these problems. > > > Any ideas? Yeah, FreeBSD only runs on i386 and Alpha architectures. That your installs get as far as they do has me quite confused though. Perhaps you should try NetBSD. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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