Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:29:08 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu@freedesktop.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0 iso files Message-ID: <510AF034.4060606@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <83B096F3-D0EE-464E-B1CB-9AB83B383D8A@freedesktop.org> References: <CA%2BWntOuq013XUQhj0PGJid7T20RNGoi-mC%2BRYL2NfSEatTo6rw@mail.gmail.com> <510AC70F.4090803@freebsd.org> <83B096F3-D0EE-464E-B1CB-9AB83B383D8A@freedesktop.org>
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On 01/31/13 15:06, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote: > On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 01/30/13 22:35, Super Bisquit wrote: >>> I've seen that the problem with 9.x has occurred with others. >>> >>> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=206473#post206473 >>> >>> Have the images been updated as of yet? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> It's a bug in the Mac OS X kernel -- the disks work perfectly fine if you boot off of them. The 9.1 disks have a slightly different format that doesn't cause stack corruption inside Darwin and so won't crash OS X if you try to mount them. > The reported error in that thread as I read it is essentially, "During (FreeBSD) kernel initialization the cpu fetched an exception in kernel mode and shutdown the PowerBook immediately." … how does that have anything to do with xnu? > > The top post 10 posts are about XNU (and I know about that behavior on my own hardware -- the bug is still there at least in 10.6.8). The second post, which I hadn't looked at, is at #11. Don't know what's going on there -- would be nice to have some more information about the hardware than "Powerbook G4". -Nathan
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