Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 22:46:20 +0100 From: Michael Tuexen <tuexen@freebsd.org> To: Tom Pusateri <pusateri@bangj.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent problems with PowerMac G5 64 bit USB Message-ID: <A0A1E77E-FC42-4C5B-A751-E773CCF8629D@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <DE03B1C4-1E3A-4F13-A402-7C353A98F3E1@bangj.com>
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> On 9. Dec 2018, at 22:26, Tom Pusateri <pusateri@bangj.com> wrote: > > 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? Try booting with SMP disabled. You can do that at the boot loader prompt and if that works, you can add an entry to /boot/loader.conf. This get 12 or head working for me (with one CPU) on two dual CPU G5s. Best regards Michael > > Thanks, > Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"home | help
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