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Date:      Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:58:19 +0200
From:      Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ibook G3 Clamshell : FreeBSD 8.2 installation hangs
Message-ID:  <20110811005819.98f86874.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
In-Reply-To: <1B898BAF-5BDA-486E-BA61-31C3736E2284@gmail.com>

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:54:52 +0200
Charles Séjourné <charles.s0982@gmail.com> wrote:

> But, the installation hangs at another moment :
> Code:
> acd0: CDROM <MATSHITA CR-176/6AA1> at ata1-master WDMA2
> Google didn't find anything, and I don't know how to resolve that. I thought the cause might be the cd player, which may be dead, but I'm not sure at all.

You can try to turn off DMA for the ATAPI device (CDROM) from the boot loader:
set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
It helped me on a G5.

HTH
-- 
Torfinn



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