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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:51:01 -0600
From:      "Brandon Bergren" <bdragon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "FreeBSD PowerPC ML" <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc?
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2021, at 2:32 PM, Julio Merino wrote:
> I have a PowerMac G5 (that I got recently) currently running 12. It was an
> awesome experience to install the system and quickly get going with "pkg
> install" right after; wasn't expecting binary packages to be available at
> all.
> 
> I want to upgrade it to 13 but the last attempt at trying this release's
> installer failed to boot... need to try again; we'll see.

This is a known issue with the -BETA1 release that will be fixed in the next beta release. There was an issue that snuck in in December that only affected G5. It's fixed now in HEAD and stable-13 and the 13.0 release engineering branch.

-- 
  Brandon Bergren
  bdragon@FreeBSD.org



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