Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:13:48 -0500 From: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems with 9.0 PowerPC images from main ftp site Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOuwuPSU4FLCsLR3DrBc5a4A37BXbGffBmCCKiremrCcDA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F41702B.6080506@freebsd.org> References: <CA%2BWntOskB34-f3JB%2BepwDxEBzbEaOQf4p1zRq-V9n-Z0mn_RdA@mail.gmail.com> <4F41702B.6080506@freebsd.org>
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It may have been the media I used. I was able to install from the releases on your FreeBSD repo page. I have an iMac G4 800MHz that is being used. Also, the firmware is at 3.X if that means anything. On 2/19/12, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 02/19/12 04:28, Super Bisquit wrote: >> I decided to try burning an image from Index of >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/powerpc/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ >> >> And here are the following errors: >> >> 1.) The usb image doesn't boot. From following Whitehorn and others on >> the FreeBSD PowerPC mailing list, one needs to have the bootloader >> dd'ed to a HFS formatted partition of 1MB. > > The USB image includes this. Some Powermacs don't have the ability to > boot from USB, however. > >> A README with basic instructions and/or references to forum and >> mailing list posts needs to be available for all non i386/amd64 >> systems. >> >> 2) The boot-only and disc-1 images stop at >> sc0: Unknown<16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> > > What hardware were you using? The ISOs work fine on at least the systems > I've tested on. There was a problem with the ATA driver on a few > machines that could supposedly be solved by setting the loader tunable > hint.ata.X.mode to turn off DMA (see > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164123). > -Nathan >
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