Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:52:45 -0500 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@macmic.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: after running the installer on a PowerMac G5 no root filesystem found Message-ID: <64612e49-7798-bf2a-44b6-56cfcd3b3e80@blastwave.org> In-Reply-To: <806379E7-97EE-4977-B334-B3C53522F789@macmic.franken.de> References: <6f6d590b-02ef-ef9c-ed58-50121142e616@blastwave.org> <15F2B2EA-2129-46A8-BAAA-5AB8A9B6478B@macmic.franken.de> <806379E7-97EE-4977-B334-B3C53522F789@macmic.franken.de>
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<snip> >>> >>> At first boot I get a load of text and then a strange prompt that seems >>> to be asking where is the root filesystem? It also lists all the various >>> filesystems found. I tried to enter ufs:/dev/adas2 and similar things >>> but this gets me nothing but an unrecognized filesystem message. >>> >>> So .. something obvious? >> Can you try setting the variable kern.smp.disabled to 1 at the >> loader prompt? >> If that helps, you can add >> kern.smp.disabled=1 >> to /boot/leader.conf > I meant /boot/loader.conf. To do that at all I would need to be able to get to the root filesystem. >> I had all sorts of problems until I disabled SMP on my G5 PowerMacs. >> Without SMP they are running very stable. So FreeBSD can not run on ye old IBM PPC970 units with multiple cores or multiple sockets? That sounds like a critical bug. Dennis Clarke
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