From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 23 04:26:04 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 88BA410656C4; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:26:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander.bakst@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01A78FC0C; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:25:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 8so712122qwh.7 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:25:36 -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=6sZeLVYfyWGGNuDmvWbbvDIBBzWarcSYXD6lwbxPqd8=; b=SGEpgssGtwgp1jeRItUA3NDpNSLLjeZ0Mabdsx0u9Kqa9Lxbfr+5gh4qAM0A9cxus+ nf4XCvu0gtgaVnmp+dG9FWlFrFH30IYUCMqpG9w0YJ7lPg4HkFQXBB8a/Ejxb/98QB2y 5DCpPvrpyl5B3bOqUAMOnAvDbtqeqlgjJSReI= 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=DXIAxStEB6h+wkpaiEVQatFmmrjT9bSOTCcgQ/zWqD+bLJ8l9eO5hmo7FSRFVN82lk TF4KhLPRI9WG+dV1R/Bjq2cnRBCM5MtZANl8cl23hDVyGInjsLB3/gJc/+kxOWYUPZs5 VwjxqodKma0S4SgxizRE7V71oplrrcgl+3Ybs= Received: by 10.224.114.200 with SMTP id f8mr78416qaq.116.1266899135899; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:25:35 -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 7sm268002qwb.57.2010.02.22.20.25.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:25:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B8358BB.10703@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:25:31 -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> <4B83233F.5050601@gmail.com> <4B835426.1090002@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4B835426.1090002@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 04:26:04 -0000 Perfect. Maybe if I can find some spare cycles I can look into contributing somehow. I spent the first hour of work today looking at ibm's power 970 manual. --Alexander On 2/22/10 11:05 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Yes, you just need to upgrade to the latest sources in -CURRENT. > Follow the source upgrade directions in the handbook > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html), > starting in the section titled "Tracking a development branch". You > shouldn't have to live with your computer sounding like it is full of > angry bees for more than an hour or so. > -Nathan > > Alexander Bakst wrote: >> 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 >