Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:04:33 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerPC installer Message-ID: <20110123000433.9392f656.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20110122232425.b8c24fb7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <4D38503C.5090805@freebsd.org> <20110122232425.b8c24fb7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Breaking news: On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:24:25 +0100 Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:09:48 -0600 > Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > As part of my work on BSDInstall (http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall), > > I've produced an install CD that can set up a bootable system on Apple > > powerpc hardware. This may be useful to people trying to set up new > > machines. An ISO is here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-powerpc-20110116.iso.bz2 > > Tested on my PowerMac G5[1] (yes - the one which probablyu has broken > hardware), and the image booted fine, dtected the keyboard, and the > started printing error messages from the cd drive. A few minutes later > the fans come on full blast, and that's it. > (I am beginning to suspect that FreeBSD currently do something > differently than other OS'es for the CD drive in this machine - FreeBSD > is the only os that has problems reading it after booting) However, I was able to boot the same image from a memory stick, and the keyboard is working, so I was able to manually mount root: cd9660:/dev/da0 and after that the image was working. Now there is dmesg output (normal) on the FreeBSD page for my PowerMac G5: http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g5_freebsd Verbose dmesg coming! -- Torfinn
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