From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 9 14:27:05 2010 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 BFB581065673 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:27:05 +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 8FD188FC18 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:27:05 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII 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 <0L8H00J0IEP44J00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:27:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.68.10]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0L8H00AXCEOZ5Y50@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:26:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:26:59 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: Bryan Vyhmeister Message-id: <4C88E0A3.2030403@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.68.10 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-10, Version=5.6.0.2009776, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2010.9.9.131817, SenderIP=76.210.68.10 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 References: <20100713164320.40351367@anacreon.physics.wisc.edu> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100729 Thunderbird/3.0.6 Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT 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: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:27:05 -0000 On 07/16/10 09:33, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Nathan Whitehorn > wrote: > >> On Jul 15, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: >> >> >>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Gary wrote: >>> >>>> boot from disc one fails to find my hard drives. passing the -v flag >>>> to the boot command doesn't work either. >>>> >>> I had the same experience with my Dual 2.7 GHz PowerMac G5. I also >>> have a Dual 1.8 GHz PowerMac G5 that I can test on tomorrow or over >>> the weekend. >>> >> Does a verbose boot provide any information from the ATA layer about why >> they are failing to attach? >> > I will try and determine that on the Dual 2.7. I just booted from > disc1 on the Dual 1.8 and no hard drives show up with 'boot' but they > do with 'boot -v'. I have been unable to use the livefs so far. I > burned it to a DVD and tried to boot from it but it won't boot. The > computer just spits it out when holding down C at startup. Using disc1 > I was able to partition the Dual 1.8 system but I can't install the > boot loader without the livefs (I think anyway). Oddly, the livefs > mounts as an hfs filesystem on my Mac. Is that correct? > This bug with the hard drives not being detected is now fixed with r212359. I'll reroll install CDs in a day or two with the fix. Thanks to everyone who reported it. -Nathan