Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:31:10 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from CD Message-ID: <p06200793bdf0ffd41bc7@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <41CB440D.2090800@freebsd.org> References: <412CE7D8.5070805@twcny.rr.com> <1093463741.14988.6.camel@schemer> <412D485B.3020105@twcny.rr.com> <412D539A.4060200@freebsd.org> <p0620078ebdf0cf04ab01@[128.113.24.47]> <41CB440D.2090800@freebsd.org>
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At 8:17 AM +1000 12/24/04, Peter Grehan wrote: >Hi Garance, > >>The first PowerMac does have a few other odd issues, so the problem >>might be hardware. There is some hardware-shuffling I could try to >>fix the problems, but I first want to know if you would *expect* >>the August snapshot to work on this hardware? If not, then I won't >>waste my time on that shuffling. > > I think Drew Gallatin had some problems with an AGP/400. There was >a fix committed on Sep 26. > > Have you tried dropping into OpenFirmware and booting manually ? >(described in 2b at http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html) That's the "other problem" with this machine. I can't get it to go into open-firmware, with or without the CD. In fact, I can't get the plain 'option' key to pop up the list of installed OS's which are available (the machine has two disks, and six different versions of MacOS installed on it right now). It also has one firewire port which is blown out (from an external firewire drive that went haywire at one point), but the other firewire port is still working fine. Other than those issues, the machine has worked perfectly fine for me for the past few years. I know the option key at startup *used* to work, but I haven't used this machine for much in the past 4 months (it was replaced by a new dual-G5). So, I have no idea what caused option to stop working. For all I know, it may have stopped working two years ago. The option key does still work as expected in all other situations (after the machine is booted up), so it's not likely to be a broken keyboard. But if I try to trigger any of the bootup-tricks which need the option key, the computer just freezes up. This happens with either option key on the keyboard. I also have one of the first-run "white iBooks" (dual-Firewire) that I could try FreeBSD/PPC on, but someone else has borrowed that from me and I might not get it back for a few weeks. >I'll put together an up-to-date 6-CURRENT CD image which might >help things a bit. Okay, thanks. It'd be nice to get another freebsd platform up and running here in my office, and I should have enough spare time over the next three weeks. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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