From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Mon Feb 27 09:32:59 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC835CEEFDC for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:32:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eekee57@fastmail.fm) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B429BA6A for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eekee57@fastmail.fm) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DB1208AD for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 04:32:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from web2 ([10.202.2.212]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 27 Feb 2017 04:32:58 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=Cmk9jRoH6FXuX671dKXi3IYc9n g=; b=arBjv8BtnLgQ96l+mlth4iaVu1i0xk0eK906k+xdAYFMjRrg+bMlAeADVA kqpCWOzrOg5sQiKZbLZqh7zEPcMcKN8fjFcaDPZr2vQ3zVsjF3tQfnn59OD08TyX 58xJvZA/ZiCjpHm8kSEkudmf6aOd5E67SwKpTi99SF/4Exmwo= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=Cm k9jRoH6FXuX671dKXi3IYc9ng=; b=ZwUHB7n/U95fZMqrSloUB05xqFsfrl0axg yIm37Qzw3sl5TjJH432A76T5bCgOmW2u9K2G6F/JtJk9O7817wWAdFXeExnMP+T6 Ph6kOEonQG/DliDcuPFtv0io7UF9HMktAF3MvO5UvfaP1xoNDsdEtPKsOUNaa9vN GvWzdTbnI= X-ME-Sender: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id C304C626D2; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 04:32:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1488187977.3418832.893931616.102242DF@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-715c2c0c References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Error with Install CD on PPC iMac G3 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:32:57 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:33:00 -0000 On Sat, Feb 4, 2017, at 07:35 PM, Garrett Zuhoski wrote: > Hi there, > > I have an old iMac that I was wanting to play around with, and since linux > has been dropping PPC support left and right, I figured this would be a > good opportunity to play around with other Unices like FreeBSD. > > Upon boot, the bootloader comes up and loads the kernel, then quickly > scrolling text followed by a reboot of the machine. > > Here is a photo of the error: http://i.imgur.com/ZgBBLjG.png > > Someone on Freenode told me "the exc register is being set wrong clearly > and getting into the wrong case of the switch block" (I'm not sure what > that means) i had the exact same experience with an ibook, and filed a bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217375 i'm amazed you managed to get a photo, i don't think i could, but then it's doubly hard to see on my ibook's old flat panel. > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- I'm too old to use vi.