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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:07:15 -0500
From:      "David Frascone" <dave@frascone.com>
To:        grehan@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What machine(s) is the PPC iso suposed to boot on?
Message-ID:  <9cf5ced20712131507o55377136w90a61c921bf1c106@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4761A790.6060501@freebsd.org>
References:  <9cf5ced20712131308j72173957u8656386d2330e982@mail.gmail.com> <4761A790.6060501@freebsd.org>

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The 'C' trick got it booting (I'm such a noob) -- but 7.0b4 still died at
"Error mounting /dev/ad0s9 on /mnt: Operation no permitted", after creating
the filesystems.

I'll download 6.2 RELEASE and see if it fares any better.

-Dave

On Dec 13, 2007 4:43 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> > It doesn't boot in qemu-system-ppc
>
>  Known issue (as of yesterday). Not sure if that will be fixed anytime
> soon.
>
> > or on an iBook g4.
>
>  Which model iBook ?
>
>  I've had success with 7.0-BETA3 on a B&W G3, 450MHz G4, PowerBook G4
> and a G4 dome iMac.
>
>  Are you doing a 'C' boot ? If so and that's not working, are you able
> to drop into OpenFirmware and do a
>
> 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>



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