From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 18:56:33 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBAF3110 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from d.mail.sonic.net (d.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3B979FB for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aurora.physics.berkeley.edu (aurora.Physics.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.117.67]) (authenticated bits=0) by d.mail.sonic.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sAKIuQTj026883 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:56:26 -0800 Message-ID: <546E3959.5020904@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:56:25 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org, jau789@gmail.com Subject: Re: Booting freebsd on a powermac g4 from a CD References: <546E38E4.70305@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <546E38E4.70305@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVYrz3SmdyKE/2zVKeVd2FiBG3g9BTNGb0IkhBKpA0G2oFNZhu1Z3PpNl1lJO1xD6w2x3mRKiEUL3CWRp6nHzl30hTbcXLw1VO0= X-Sonic-ID: C;iM6q7eZw5BGSVlG2qJ4NOg== M;hKfV7eZw5BGSVlG2qJ4NOg== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:56:33 -0000 You should just be able to insert the CD and hold 'C'. Does that not work for you? What model of G4 is this? -Nathan On 11/20/14 10:54, Jukka Ukkonen wrote: > Hello all, > > What might be the current official method or at least known > working method for booting FreeBSD on a PowerMac G4 from a CD? > > After 10.1 update my installed kernel hangs after probing > gem0. When the MAC address has been displayed there is no > more output, and the boot time autoconfig never proceeds > any further. > Now I would like to try booting an alternate (probably also > older) version of FreeBSD from CD to try to fix the system. > The old examples I have found for booting from CD do not seem > to work. > > --jau > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >