From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 01:47:43 2011 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 2A32B106564A for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:47:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from thalia-smout.broadpark.no (thalia-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D373C8FC17 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:47:42 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from ignis-smin.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.11]) by thalia-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTP id <0LFK00GVV2BH2B20@thalia-smout.broadpark.no> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:47:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no ([84.48.120.77]) by ignis-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with SMTP id <0LFK00IM52BGUAK0@ignis-smin.broadpark.no> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:47:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:47:40 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-id: <20110125024740.101e3301.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-reply-to: References: <20110123003845.053726a7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20110124223642.7e12d3a5.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20110124225757.fd6a4b4f.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <4D3DF6B5.3080307@freebsd.org> <20110125005916.16aa4aae.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Subject: Re: PowerMac G5 and FreeBSD 9.0-current: no disks? 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: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:47:43 -0000 On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:19:59 -0800 Gary wrote: > Hold down the left mouse button during power-on. Some drives in the > G5s have a barely reachable eject button on the front if you pull down > the drive slot door. One of mine actually had the physical eject > button removed so it's a bit of a hassle if I want to swap install > discs. I should have been more specific; I want to open the cd drive from within FreeBSD. (I knew about that mouse button down) > I'm curious to try the version 9 image you're referring to as I'm > unable to get SATA drives to appear from either the 8.2 RC1 release or > Nathan's custom disc. Where are you getting the version 9 images? I used the one linked to in Nathan's post on this mailing list, with the subject "PowerPC installer". And, as I wrote, on my machine I need to do a "boot -v" to have the disks recognized by FreeBSD. -- Torfinn