Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:17:49 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from CD Message-ID: <41CB440D.2090800@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <p0620078ebdf0cf04ab01@[128.113.24.47]> References: <412CE7D8.5070805@twcny.rr.com> <1093463741.14988.6.camel@schemer> <412D485B.3020105@twcny.rr.com> <412D539A.4060200@freebsd.org> <p0620078ebdf0cf04ab01@[128.113.24.47]>
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Hi Garance, > The first PowerMac does have a few other odd issues, so the problem > might be hardware. There is some hardware-shuffling I could try to > fix the problems, but I first want to know if you would *expect* > the August snapshot to work on this hardware? If not, then I won't > waste my time on that shuffling. I think Drew Gallatin had some problems with an AGP/400. There was a fix committed on Sep 26. Have you tried dropping into OpenFirmware and booting manually ? (described in 2b at http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html) > I tried checking the web pages before asking here, but the pages at > http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/ppc.html seem to be way out-of-date. Yep :-( I'll put together an up-to-date 6-CURRENT CD image which might help things a bit. later, Peter.
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