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Cc: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>,
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: firewire issue]
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Fabio,

Fabio wrote:

> Thank you both for your quick answer. I'll see what I can do with  
> Andreas' diff. Right now, I'm still fighting with sysinstall (trying  
> to get the proper partition map) so it may take a while.

Are you trying to install FreeBSD on an external firewire disk? Or do 
you have a firewire device attached to you imac G3 and want to install 
to an internal disk?
If the first is true, I'm sorry, I feel it won't work since early Apple 
Firewire chips are broken in several ways.
If the second is true, please try to detach any firewire devices from 
your G3 before booting. The firewire code from 8.0/CURRENT goes into an 
infinite loop with this crappy chip.

If both are not true, if you can, try to use the pdisk from OS-X to 
format your partition you want fbsd installed on.

Just guessing.

Andreas