From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 01:50:05 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 423699F0 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2015 01:50:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asp.reflexion.net (outbound-242.asp.reflexion.net [69.84.129.242]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E309DF41 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2015 01:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29346 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2015 01:49:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rtc-sm-01.app.dca.reflexion.local) (10.81.150.1) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with SMTP; 4 Feb 2015 01:49:57 -0000 Received: by rtc-sm-01.app.dca.reflexion.local (Reflexion email security v7.40.1) with SMTP; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:49:57 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 19494 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2015 01:49:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iron2.pdx.net) (69.64.224.71) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 4 Feb 2015 01:49:57 -0000 X-No-Relay: not in my network X-No-Relay: not in my network Received: from [192.168.1.8] (c-67-189-19-145.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.189.19.145]) by iron2.pdx.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 142D91C43A6; Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:49:51 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Millard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: support installing FreeBSD on PowerPC G5 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:49:54 -0800 Message-Id: <70806D15-351B-4AFF-8533-4BF29B3E05B8@dsl-only.net> To: j.kakisina@me.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2070.6\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2070.6) Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:50:05 -0000 You likely can hold down the C key to automatically try booting from the = CD instead of using Cmd-Option-O-F and "boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0". = When it allows the boot to start it can avoid other things from = interfering. But specifically for = "FreeBSD-10.0-STABLE-powerpc-powerpc64-20140528-r266807-disc1.iso (md5 = validated) and burned it to a CD" I reported to this list back on = 2014-Jun-01: > For a C-key style boot it hangs shortly after displaying >=20 > loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf >=20 > and stops while displaying "/" from its progress indicator. The fans = then gradually spin up. >=20 > Trying the available PowerMac7,11 gets the same sort of results so = I'll not repeat the information. This is before it puts out the line about loading that lists data=3D and = syms=3D[...]. If anything else is blocking booting from such CDs then it = is a different issue then I'm dealing with in this note. All other forms = of booting from that image burned to CD also get this hang (if you get = that far in the first place). All 10.0-??? and 10.1-??? powerpc64 .iso's since then are that way until = recently. It may be that the problem started with = FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-*.iso images, I'm not sure (do = not remember). The following is known to not hang that way: FreeBSD-10.1-STABLE-powerpc-powerpc64-20150121-r277483-disc1.iso and the more recent FreeBSD-10.1-STABLE-powerpc-powerpc64-20150201-r278028-disc1.iso likely does not either, but I've not tested that one. You can find such = for a time from: http://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/ This area is updated periodically and older versions are then removed. The images at = http://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-p= owerpc-powerpc64-*.iso have the hang problem. It may be that = http://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-p= owerpc-powerpc64-*.iso images also have the hang problem. =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net