Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:44:44 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: G5 FreeBSD/ppc64 Message-ID: <20110317234444.c3281996.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <A1382A4E-50B3-44E5-86C9-AF4BF4003F3F@freedesktop.org> References: <FFA6ABCD-8A6A-4CA1-B39C-42BD6860A0F7@apple.com> <4D7D4367.1040302@freebsd.org> <A1382A4E-50B3-44E5-86C9-AF4BF4003F3F@freedesktop.org>
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:02:56 -0700 Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@freedesktop.org> wrote: > > On Mar 13, 2011, at 15:21, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > >> I'm guessing I should just burn this iso and have a go: > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-powerpc64-20110308.iso.bz2 > >> > > > > Good to hear! The ppc64 list is the same as the ppc one, and it's fairly low traffic. That ISO is the right one, with a caveat due to a bug in cdrtools that should be worked around soon, but for now you have to boot it by doing this at the OF prompt: > > boot cd:,\BOOT\LOADER;1 cd:0 > > So I just tried that on my Quad-G5 and got: > > load-size=67d adler32=67d0001 > unrecognized Client Program format > > I burned the ISO from Disk Utility.app on OSX. Here's the checksum: > SHA1(bsdinstall-powerpc64-20110308.iso)= e350edd3a72332a027e4dc71beda4cfd5cf3ec97 Interesting, I've tried the same image on my G5 Quad[1], and from my FreeBSD notes[2] it booted without problems. See the first 2011-03-12 entry (at the bootom of the page). References: 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g5_quad 2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g5_quad_freebsd -- Torfinn
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