Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:54:10 -0600 From: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org> To: Suleiman Souhlal <refugee@segfaulted.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iBook powerpc FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040322205410.GA4345@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20040322153957.2e1975c2@zZzZ.segfaulted.com> References: <33096697.1070594219595.JavaMail.root@gonzo.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <3FD008EB.7050109@freebsd.org> <20040319233116.GA981@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> <405C07A0.7060909@freebsd.org> <20040322174818.GA1576@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> <20040322153957.2e1975c2@zZzZ.segfaulted.com>
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Thanks! I can't use the hard drive anyway -- my girlfriend would have a fit if all the sudden her nice shiny OS X interface turned into a command line FreeBSD. ;-) I'll give it a try this evening if I get a chance. Sean On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:39:57PM -0500, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > Hi Sean, > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:48:18 -0600 > Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org> wrote: > > > When it did get into the black screen scrolling mode > > it chugged for a bit and then hung. I can't get a > > screen copy of it because it is on the powerbook screen > > but I can tell you that it hangs right after the two > > lines reading: > > > > pcib2: <Apple UniNorth Host-PCI bridge> on nexus0 > > pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2 > > Yes, I recently started getting the same thing on my 15" pb. It seems > that the problem is with the ATA driver. It could be that either the > kauai driver(which seemed to work before, but maybe I did not test it > well enough), or something changed in the machine independent ATA > stuff.. A quick workaround, until the problem is fixed, is to disable > ATA from the kernel (the hard drive will not work, though). You can find > such a kernel at: > http://www.segfaulted.com/stuff/freebsd-ppc/kernel.noata > > Later, > Suleiman Souhlal
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