Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 16:26:45 -0500 From: Tom Pusateri <pusateri@bangj.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: recent problems with PowerMac G5 64 bit USB Message-ID: <DE03B1C4-1E3A-4F13-A402-7C353A98F3E1@bangj.com>
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I dusted off a PowerMac dual CPU G5 the other day to do some Big Endian Rust debugging. I first tried a Lubuntu 16.04 install image but after installing, I couldn’t get it to boot. yaboot would run and give me a menu to choose linux but when I selected it, it just returned to the mac boot menu. I think they got the open firmware boot command wrong but I can’t figure out what they are calling since it goes by so fast. So then I tried various version of FreeBSD with lots of issues: Version arch status 12.0RC3 powerpc64 USB errors prevented keyboard from working so couldn’t configure it 11.2 powerpc64 kernel panic on boot 11.2stable20181203 powerpc64 kernel panic on boot 11.1 powerpc64 kernel panic on boot 11.0 powerpc64 installed ok but portsnap couldn’t fetch/extract ports 11.2 powerpc booted and installed ok. No pkgs. portsnap fetch/extract ok So, I’m sure there’s no reason to open bugs on much of this but it does seem odd that 11.2 release images don’t boot and 11.2 stable images don’t boot. I’m happy to just use 12.0 and so I’m planning on just opening up a bug report on the USB issues there. Anyone else seeing this on 64-bit? Thanks, Tomhelp
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