From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 21 06:13:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29401065680; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:13:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from superbisquit@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD9E8FC14; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:13:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbcxa7 with SMTP id xa7so7832907pbc.13 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:13:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ciBYD4n9OrlTiLN7xra7SyY2dDm+JiPkX/R15Y+XZ68=; b=Zuk3zdGngFXCJDEmxcHSIImCuyo6SC1QcTjMB9q89Xn5dxS2Tk/WenX82X500JU3Ek Voi+pe7aTyjWaMbpL9cOvSfDxYD87kZIUB1+nWfLAzufN1WY4zz+f4o9kz3lxB45rVRe UL+dSsuyJxxwMClN1rbMes26tQQa9bl79lAow= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.240.135 with SMTP id wa7mr58539011pbc.7.1329804828349; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:13:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.48.35 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:13:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F41702B.6080506@freebsd.org> References: <4F41702B.6080506@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:13:48 -0500 Message-ID: From: Super Bisquit To: Nathan Whitehorn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-current , FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: Problems with 9.0 PowerPC images from main ftp site X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:13:49 -0000 It may have been the media I used. I was able to install from the releases on your FreeBSD repo page. I have an iMac G4 800MHz that is being used. Also, the firmware is at 3.X if that means anything. On 2/19/12, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 02/19/12 04:28, Super Bisquit wrote: >> I decided to try burning an image from Index of >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/powerpc/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ >> >> And here are the following errors: >> >> 1.) The usb image doesn't boot. From following Whitehorn and others on >> the FreeBSD PowerPC mailing list, one needs to have the bootloader >> dd'ed to a HFS formatted partition of 1MB. > > The USB image includes this. Some Powermacs don't have the ability to > boot from USB, however. > >> A README with basic instructions and/or references to forum and >> mailing list posts needs to be available for all non i386/amd64 >> systems. >> >> 2) The boot-only and disc-1 images stop at >> sc0: Unknown<16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> > > What hardware were you using? The ISOs work fine on at least the systems > I've tested on. There was a problem with the ATA driver on a few > machines that could supposedly be solved by setting the loader tunable > hint.ata.X.mode to turn off DMA (see > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164123). > -Nathan >