From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 02:00:34 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 5E7E01065672 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3148FC16 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:00:33 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LFK002002WXKI00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:00:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (adsl-76-208-68-88.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [76.208.68.88]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LFK00M952WTQD10@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:00:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:00:27 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <20110125024740.101e3301.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen Message-id: <4D3E2EBB.7080708@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.208.68.88 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-11, Version=5.6.0.2009776, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.1.25.15121, SenderIP=76.208.68.88 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> <20110125024740.101e3301.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101214 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org 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 02:00:34 -0000 On 01/24/11 19:47, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > 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 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