From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 03:42:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117EF16A4CE for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:42:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from liberty.onthenet.com.au (liberty.OntheNet.com.au [203.22.124.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8E143D5E for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (CPE-30-4.dsl.onthenet.net [203.144.30.4]) i13Bg7ZG061367; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:42:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <401F8984.2070109@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:44:04 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: peter@larkowski.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting a 2nd rev 12" powerbook (1Ghz) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 11:42:11 -0000 Hi Peter, > Ok, here's an odd one. I tried boot -v and it worked (ie. got to the > mountroot prompt), so tried it again, and it worked without -v. I > tried it several more times with and without -v and it's a crap shoot. > It works sometimes, and not others. When it does work, the only things > that appear after the dvd drive probe and before the mountroot prompt are: Very puzzling. > (probe0:sbp0:0:0:0): error 22 ... > (probe6:sbp0:0:6:0): Unretryable Error This is the firewire disk probe. > Also, at this point, the light on the power cord changes from green > (charged in OSX) to amber (charging). I don't know if there is any > significance there, but I thought I'd be thorough. When it doesn't work, > the light stays green, and I get none of the probe messages. That may be a side effect. > Finally, init doesn't seem to fly. I just get start_init: > trying/sbin/init > > I think it is actually mounting nfs because I had some problems with that > earlier (typo in /etc/exports) and that lands me at the debugger, whereas > it's hanging now. I hope some of this info helps. Let me know if there > is anything else useful I can do. One thing to try is to do a verbose tcpdump when it's attempting to exec init: you can see the alternates tried if init can't be read. There may be an issue with the ethernet, since I've not tried the GEM3 before. It would be interesting to see if packets were delivered. later, Peter.