From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 21:57:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9235D1065673; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:57:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6049F8FC0A; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:57:04 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LZN00E00UB3WK00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:57:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (pc2.sgchiba-unet.ocn.ne.jp [220.110.182.82]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LZN009OLUB1RD10@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:57:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:56:59 +0900 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: Super Bisquit Message-id: <4F41702B.6080506@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Score-Internal: ******* X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=220.110.182.82 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-16, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2012.2.19.214815, SenderIP=220.110.182.82 References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111213 Thunderbird/8.0 Cc: freebsd-current , FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: Problems with 9.0 PowerPC images from main ftp site X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:57:04 -0000 On 02/19/12 04:28, Super Bisquit wrote: > I decided to try burning an image from Index of > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/powerpc/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ > > And here are the following errors: > > 1.) The usb image doesn't boot. From following Whitehorn and others on > the FreeBSD PowerPC mailing list, one needs to have the bootloader > dd'ed to a HFS formatted partition of 1MB. The USB image includes this. Some Powermacs don't have the ability to boot from USB, however. > A README with basic instructions and/or references to forum and > mailing list posts needs to be available for all non i386/amd64 > systems. > > 2) The boot-only and disc-1 images stop at > sc0: Unknown<16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> What hardware were you using? The ISOs work fine on at least the systems I've tested on. There was a problem with the ATA driver on a few machines that could supposedly be solved by setting the loader tunable hint.ata.X.mode to turn off DMA (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164123). -Nathan