Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:56:59 +0900 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems with 9.0 PowerPC images from main ftp site Message-ID: <4F41702B.6080506@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BWntOskB34-f3JB%2BepwDxEBzbEaOQf4p1zRq-V9n-Z0mn_RdA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BWntOskB34-f3JB%2BepwDxEBzbEaOQf4p1zRq-V9n-Z0mn_RdA@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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