From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 23 00:37:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075BF1065672 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:37:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander.bakst@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com (mail-ew0-f211.google.com [209.85.219.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C8CD8FC13 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so3042977ewy.13 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:37:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SrKKg9BkH7aBkUibR5gJmodWMZGYcEaTdHllF1Y5QH4=; b=pRLP1xsmeJTxOmrf94xQoi8vuH7lC3QrpsqVIgY/MNWvnuxzV0EPkYXy86j/WOtjUU /Ny6CGDd20PQXn+BHAAp2fmZiUzHDqdKBB8RIB/l2ydrLSI8HLZKkQAc4Bzwb3YVI4Uv XBbl0R5v6jeiJbEwxKv88WVHc2dEuqyd+ELtg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=b6Nnab8NGhlRZy73ChNsi4CeJeFsD6R9NgihRCcBsFJUsoIoUXkLsi04KlI10LZS0S v6UrDcoAHrSVR1knbpdxZXpxH2mqhQHtU9iw90efpU4TTRgwh1p8HkxsfV1N41SWougt N0IyNNdvfRERhwW6Dl8amoy3KRitRjbpfbUg4= Received: by 10.213.102.202 with SMTP id h10mr20867ebo.94.1266885444901; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from Faptop.local (c-66-31-201-186.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [66.31.201.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm2887015ewy.10.2010.02.22.16.37.21 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:37:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B83233F.5050601@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:37:19 -0500 From: Alexander Bakst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Thunderbird/3.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Whitehorn References: <4B81BBC7.5050100@gmail.com> <4B830C74.3020603@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4B830C74.3020603@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panic on install boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:37:32 -0000 Thanks - to tell the truth, I installed Debian last night. However, I haven't quite committed to Debian, so I think I'll give this a shot. It'd be nice to learn an actual unix. If I install the 9.0-SNAP image, is there also a way to pull in the changes to fix the fan issue? Thanks, Alexander On 2/22/10 6:00 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Alexander Bakst wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I recently got a power mac g5, and am trying to install freebsd 8.0. >> I am using "8.0-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1.iso". Immediately after >> booting, I get "panic: moea 64 bootstrap: too many ofw translations." >> >> Is there a fix for this issue? >> > There was a bug in the 8.0 install CDs that prevents them from booting > on a large number of G5 systems. You can use a 9.0-SNAP image I made > in November to get a bootable CD: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/9.0-20091112-SNAP/9.0-20091112-SNAP-powerpc-disc1.iso > > > Also, -CURRENT now has some updates to smu(4) that prevent the fans in > SMU-based machines from running at maximum all the time, which should > be MFCed shortly and will be in 8.1. Once those are MFCed in the next > week or two, I will make an 8.0-STABLE CD with those updates. > -Nathan