Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:11:38 -0500 From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> To: Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 11.1 release CD image panics very early during boot on ppc. Message-ID: <CAHSQbTBysTnBAxm-_PN1APug4iTgUFu160U7Aj0v-GSXhBTv4g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <FBADE872-3319-4DE9-9E3C-797DE0CAEED0@gmail.com> References: <FBADE872-3319-4DE9-9E3C-797DE0CAEED0@gmail.com>
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Hi, On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 2:10 AM, Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com> wrote: > > I had a bit of an accident with my old PowerMac G4 which had been > running FreeBSD-10.4. To fix the mess I had to boot the system from > a CD image. So, I decided to try 11.1 while at it. To my astonishment > and disappointment the 11.1 images (both CD and DVD) paniced > very early on during the boot. The messages flashed past the screen > so quickly that I cannot be really sure about anything, but it kind of > seemed like the issue might be yet another installment of the SPRG > related problems (in ofw_machdep.c) which have been troubling > ppc64 systems before. > The 10.4 CD image boots just fine on ppc. > > --jau Can you try booting with 'boot -v' and also setting at the loader debug.debugger_on_panic=1? I think it's set to 0 on release ISOs, so this should let you get a screen capture. - Justin
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