Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 16:02:45 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsdlists@xmail.net> To: freebsd ppc <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Fails to boot on PowerMAC3,5 from install media Message-ID: <20161109000245.4CF042F2740A@www.xmail.net>
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Greetings, all I recently upgraded my wife's Mac, and was looking forward to utilizing her old one for FreeBSD. However, after nearly 5 days, I have been unable to so much as boot the install media (CD). I started with the 9.3-release iso. It would always hang either somewhere at the keyboard/mouse initialization (USB), or re-polling the DVD drive. I finally gave up, and tried the 11 CD, but using it, always resulted in a reboot shortly into the initialization process, so I decided to work my way from the 9.0-release, through the 10.x-releases. Which all also failed fairly early in the process. All 10.x ultimately result in an endless (aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted loop. Just for kicks, I burned an 8.0 CD, and placed it into the Mac, and lo-and-behold I got the install screen. But the drive portion didn't work -- it wasn't possible to delete the old partitions (it said something to the effect that it (D)elete wasn't an appropriate option). I also attempted to install OpenBSD, NetBSD. Both with varying degrees of failure. So, out of complete desperation, I tried Linux. I went from zero to desktop in under 20 minutes, with Debian Stretch,Jessie, and Ubuntu-Mate. WTF?!?!? I've been on BSD for some 30yrs, and this just seems plain *wrong*. Doesn't BSD (Darwin) bootstrap OSX? Sorry if this seems a bit "rantish" but at this point I'm pretty frustrated. :-P FWIW; HARDWARE Power MAC G4 (QuickSilver/Digital Audio) Dual CPU @800Mhz (each) PowerMAC3,5 PowerPC (2.1) ROM 4.2.5f1 *Any* help bootstrapping FreeBSD on this is *greatly* appreciated! I'd love to contribute, but if I can't even bootstrap BSD, what am I to do? :-) Thanks! --Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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