Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 17:22:00 -0500 From: Tom Pusateri <pusateri@bangj.com> To: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent problems with PowerMac G5 64 bit USB Message-ID: <29012A76-7120-4E04-A457-BACBCB1F1213@bangj.com> In-Reply-To: <3934f81a-1341-8266-8148-cd9415e5bea0@blastwave.org> References: <DE03B1C4-1E3A-4F13-A402-7C353A98F3E1@bangj.com> <A0A1E77E-FC42-4C5B-A751-E773CCF8629D@freebsd.org> <3934f81a-1341-8266-8148-cd9415e5bea0@blastwave.org>
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Thanks for the detailed instructions. I’m still getting USB timeouts even after setting kern.smp.disabled=1 and so no keyboard after boot -sv > On Dec 9, 2018, at 5:00 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote: > > On 12/9/18 4:46 PM, Michael Tuexen wrote: >>> On 9. Dec 2018, at 22:26, Tom Pusateri <pusateri@bangj.com> wrote: >>> >>> I dusted off a PowerMac dual CPU G5 the other day ... > > I have one of those running well. > > If you drop in on the irc chan I can walk you through the oddities and > secret magic step by step. Even then you may have some weird issues but > I have 12.0RC3 running fine and know what you will hit. > > You can read all aboit it if you like : > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233579 > > However really all you need to do is hold down the 'C' key on your > keyboard and the machine should boot to the dvd. When you see the loader > start to do something on the screen wait for the countdown message. You > will see the thing count down from 10 ... 9.... 8.... 7... and it isn't > an explosive device. Just hit some letter on the keyboard and you > should see a prompt. > > Type in : > > set kern.smp.disabled=1 > > set debug.verbose_sysinit=1 > > You don't really need that second one but verbose never hurt anyone. Much. > > Then type 'boot -sv' and hit enter for a verbose single user mode boot > process. > > That should get you a running live shell from the dvd and you will be > asked for what shell you want to run. Just hit enter. You will get a > prompt. > > If all that runs then you can type 'exit' and hit enter and then the > rest of the whole installer process will begin. It is fairly trivial > and be sure to just use the whole disk guided UFS made easy way of > things. > > Dennis Clarke > > > ps: you don't need the 'boot -sv' either. Just 'boot' works too but > doesn't everyone like to see a shell prompt from install media? > _______________________________________________ > 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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