Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:47:40 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerMac G5 and FreeBSD 9.0-current: no disks? Message-ID: <20110125024740.101e3301.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=19qV3ip7BQkuZ=--11S-DCQm7iqChK1os3jTK@mail.gmail.com> 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> <AANLkTi=19qV3ip7BQkuZ=--11S-DCQm7iqChK1os3jTK@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:19:59 -0800 Gary <gdriggs@gmail.com> 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'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. -- Torfinn
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