Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:01:04 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mac mini and FreeBSD - dmesg.boot!
Message-ID:  <41F47300.3050406@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <p06200737be19ffbdd478@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> <p06200731be1731cf8ec8@[128.113.24.47]> <p06200732be184e814933@[128.113.24.47]> <41F3AFBD.60505@freebsd.org> <p06200737be19ffbdd478@[128.113.24.47]>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi Garance,

> Heh.  Well, it isn't a bummer yet!  I wasn't giving up at that
> point, I just had to head home due to the storm.
> 
> After futzing around for a few hours, I have the following in
> /var/run/dmesg.boot in a partition on my mini-Mac.  I bought
> the faster model (1.42 GHz PowerPC G4).  I have it setup in a
> multi-boot situation, between MacOS 10 and FreeBSD/PPC.  I'm
> still futzing around with it, and I may not have it set up quite
> right yet, but FreeBSD/PPC is up and running on it!

  Good to hear. Did you have to work around the problem with
disks not being found ?

> cpu0:  revision
> cpu0: HID0 8410c0bc<EMCP,EICE,DPM,ICE,DCE,SGE,BTIC,FBIOB,ABE,BHT>

  Ah yes, that has to be fixed. The CPU in the mac-mini is a 7447a, so
it isn't recognised properly by the miniinst.

later,

Peter.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?41F47300.3050406>