Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:00:27 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerMac G5 and FreeBSD 9.0-current: no disks? Message-ID: <4D3E2EBB.7080708@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110125024740.101e3301.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> 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> <AANLkTi=19qV3ip7BQkuZ=--11S-DCQm7iqChK1os3jTK@mail.gmail.com> <20110125024740.101e3301.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On 01/24/11 19:47, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:19:59 -0800 > Gary<gdriggs@gmail.com> 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 think you can use burncd eject for that as well. >> 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. There's also a powerpc64 ISO at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-powerpc64-20110124.iso.bz2, with the same booting instructions, if you're interested. The SATA thing has to be a timing issue, but it requires more knowledge about ATA than I have to know where the problem is. -Nathan
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