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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 2020 01:58:13 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        Brandon Bergren <bdragon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: head -r365932 on PowerMac G5 (2 dual-core sockets): Crashes before login prompt if powerd is enabled in /etc/rc.conf
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On 2020-Sep-23, at 00:04, Brandon Bergren <bdragon at FreeBSD.org> =
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, at 7:50 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
>>=20
>>=20
>> On 2020-Sep-22, at 17:18, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> By "immediately" I mean I do not even get close to
>>> seeing the loader prompt. The display still shows
>>> OpenFirmware content: it has not been cleared yet.
>>>=20
>>=20
>> Just to be explicit: the dual socket G4 is the only type
>> of G3/G4 that does make it to the loader prompt (and a
>> little beyond). The G5 2 dual-core sockets is the only
>> context that I've tried that gets very far past the
>> loader prompt.
>=20
> This is strange. Loader works just fine on all of my G4 equipment.
>=20
> Are you making sure to use the "dev /memory@0 100000 1000 do-unmap" =
trick on 4.8.7f1 devices?

I know nothing about that and have never had to do such a thing
historically. I've never had to identify "4.8.7f1 devices".

> How are you starting loader?

Turn the PowerMac on with the SSD already plugged onto the
IDE adapter that I have in place. (The G3 is configured
such that I also have to type mac-boot to OpenFirmware.)

It is the same SSD being moved between the 2 dual-core socket G5,
2 socket G4, 1 socket G4, and the G3. So it is significant that
the 2 socket G4/G5 do get to the loader prompt but the others
do not.

1-socket G4/G3 example lines:

QUOTE
ofw_close: devh=3D0x0

>> FreeBSD/powerpc Open Firmware boot block
   Boot path:   /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/@0:
   Boot loader: /boot/loader
   Boot volume:   /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/@0:3
END QUOTE

No more shows up for the 1 socket PowerMacs.

> Is this on cdrom, network, or usb?

SSD hanging off the IDE bus via an adapter.

> To confirm, it doesn't get as far as the kernel loading spinner?

It does not. See above.

=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)




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