Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:48:18 -0600 From: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iBook powerpc FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040322174818.GA1576@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> In-Reply-To: <405C07A0.7060909@freebsd.org> References: <33096697.1070594219595.JavaMail.root@gonzo.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <3FD008EB.7050109@freebsd.org> <20040319233116.GA981@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> <405C07A0.7060909@freebsd.org>
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Hey, definitely -- I won't buy a machine that doesn't currently or won't soon run FreeBSD. I'd be sorely tempted by a G5 powerbook with the same form factor as the current 17" model... Speaking of 17" powerbooks, I did try netbooting my girlfriend's machine. I got some interesting results. After a bit of forehead slapping (added to the dhcpd.conf file to recognize the mac address but assingned a different ip address to it -- then wondered why it couldn't find the kernel with nfs only serving to the original address. Doh!!), it booted. Sort of. The network traffic seemed to be rather sporadic. It would go in "spurts" whenever it had to download anything from the server. Ie, the loader, then loader.conf, then the kernel. Each took a LONG time because it would get a chunk and then wait about 30 sec or so to get more, etc. When it did get into the black screen scrolling mode it chugged for a bit and then hung. I can't get a screen copy of it because it is on the powerbook screen but I can tell you that it hangs right after the two lines reading: pcib2: <Apple UniNorth Host-PCI bridge> on nexus0 pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2 Booting up the iBook I see the next line is: gem0: <Apple GMAC Ethernet Adaptor> mem 0xf5200000-0xf53fffff irq 41 at device 15.0 on pci2 I assume this means that the 17"er is hanging on probe of the ethernet device? I left it for several hours and it was just locked hard. No keyboard input was recognized. Let me know what you'd like me to try. I don't have the powerbook at the moment but will have access in the evenings (usually) to play with it a little while. I seem also to have some strange issue where the dmesg doesn't write to a file right now when booting the iBook. Not sure what is up with that. I *do* have a log of the initial boot into single user mode, strangely enough. Guess I don't understand NFS well enough yet... Sean On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:58:08PM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Sean, > > >I created an entry in fstab for the cdrom and was able to > >mount and read a copy of FreeSBIE (if you haven't tried it > >this livecd is pretty cool -- looks like a great way to > >check out compatible hardware in the store). > > One of the FreeSBIE developers has looked at doing a PPC > version, but I'll have to resurrect kld support before > that can happen. > > >netstat complains about kvm -- I recall that was an issue > >earlier as well. Should it work or is this just something > >you've not got to yet? > > Still haven't gotten to it. > > >I have rpcbind, rpc.statd, and rpc.lockd running on the > >server but I'm still getting flock errors. Maybe I missed > >some configuration detail somewhere? I can edit files > >without issue but I'm prevented from successfully running > >either passwd or adduser. Any pointers? > > Sorry, can't help out there. > > >Anything in particular you'd like me to test? I'm planning > >to try netbooting my girlfriend's late model 17" 1.33 GHz > >powerbook this evening. > > That sounds a good one to try out. There's been a report of > the Kauai ATA controller not being probed on that model so it > will be something to look for. > > >How's the G5 hacking coming? > > A bit slow at the moment, but I'll get back into it when I'm > bored with GarageBand :-) > > >I'm thinking a G5 notebook would be a nice replacement for > >my Dell sometime in the next year. ;-) > > And even better if FreeBSD could run on it :-) > > later, > > Peter. > >
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