Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 20:15:39 -0500 From: Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerMac G4 unable to auto-boot with FBSD 12.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <F610D17B-F7BE-4CB4-B439-D103F5E12419@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4301F523-AC1F-4E32-8EB3-01771F7AB36A@gmail.com> References: <4301F523-AC1F-4E32-8EB3-01771F7AB36A@gmail.com>
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One thing I had not tried before was resetting the PRAM. I did that a coupl=
e of times using Command-Option-p-r and everything is working fine
cheers,
mehul
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> On Nov 4, 2020, at 19:36, Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have installed FreeBSD/powerpc 12.2-RELEASE on a PowerMac G4. I initial=
ly had FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE installed, but that kept randomly rebooting.
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> I switched to NetBSD/macppc and that worked just fine.=20
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> With 12.2 released I decided to try again with FreeBSD. =20
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> The installation went fine. =46rom the OF boot prompt, I am able to boot u=
sing:
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> boot hd:2,\ppc\boot1.elf
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> FBSD will boot up, I can login and use the system as normal. If I set =E2=
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> I have boot-device set to =E2=80=9Chd:2,\ppc\boot1.elf=E2=80=9D
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> Is there anything else I need to setup? When I had 12.0 installed it wou=
ld boot as expected.=20
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