Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:10:45 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>, Benno Rice <benno@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from CD Message-ID: <p0620078ebdf0cf04ab01@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <412D539A.4060200@freebsd.org> References: <412CE7D8.5070805@twcny.rr.com> <1093463741.14988.6.camel@schemer> <412D485B.3020105@twcny.rr.com> <412D539A.4060200@freebsd.org>
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Way back on August 26/2004, Peter Grehan wrote: >Hi Ed, > >>Okay. I booted from the cd and it stopped at the 'mountroot>' >>prompt. What do I enter here -- it is supposed to take the >>form of 'cd9660:acd0' but there isn't any such device. Should >>this be my Mac partition, my Linux partition (which I'll convert >>to FreeBSD), or my CDROM? And how (from Mac OS X) do I determine >>what I need to enter? > > You've got it right; you should be able to enter 'cd9660:acd0' >at the mountroot prompt. Actually, you should be able to hold >down the 'c' key at boot time with that CD image. I thought I would try to install FreeBSD/PPC on a spare PowerMac that I have. It is a PowerMac G4 (AGP graphics), 500 MHz. It has 768 Meg of RAM. I can not seem to get the machine to boot up off of the CD. I hold down the 'C' key, and it basically just locks up. The video never comes on, nothing seems to happen. The same machine can boot up off of standard Apple installation CD's, when I hold down the 'C' key. I also have a G4 Cube. I took the same CD, and I was able to boot up the Cube with it. Unfortunately I am still using that cube for other purposes, so I don't want to install FreeBSD on it. But I was able to boot the CD up into single-user mode. It looked very promising. 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 tried checking the web pages before asking here, but the pages at http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/ppc.html seem to be way out-of-date. -- 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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