Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 21:37:52 +0200 From: Georg Bege <georg@bege.email> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD 12 on a POWER7 Message-ID: <2d0dd109-aae3-a50a-3815-e4111e52a99a@bege.email>
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Hello mailing list, I've tried to install FreeBSD 12 on a POWER 740 today. As far as I know POWER7 should be supported, I couldnt find a lot of=20 information - but ... it should be. While Im an experienced FreeBSD user, this is my *first* POWER installati= on. I chose to boot the ISO: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/powerpc/powerpc64/ISO-IMAGES/12= .0/FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-dvd1.iso I didnt try other releases, as I were running out of time. Since the machine has a DVD drive, I booted via SMS from this device and=20 the loader started. However it was unable to find the kernel. My initial guess is that while it was accessing the media, it couldnt=20 find the media path?? I've made a couple of photos with my mobile, I'll put them online and I=20 hope its not too offensive on a ML. At this time I was quite in a hurry and I forgot to make carbon-copies=20 of all of my terminal output. Image showing bootup after SMS: https://imgur.com/a/7JWZqRT Also commands like 'ls /' etc. werent possible either. I managed to boot a Gentoo Linux LiveCD however, that worked fine. Has someone any advice how I can proceed debugging this? Would you say this is an issue regarding booting from this DVD, I could=20 also try booting via network. best regards, Georg
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