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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:49:23 -0800
From:      Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>
To:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   FreeBSD 10.1 PPC64 on XServe G5 hangs at Openfirmware Loader [-r277483's .iso's can boot quad-core PowerMac!]
Message-ID:  <B17328FB-0E73-4C22-9D05-49D71917E698@dsl-only.net>

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I burned =
FreeBSD-10.1-STABLE-powerpc-powerpc64-20150121-r277483-disc1.iso to a CD =
and booted a PowerMac G5 Quad-Core from the CD, selecting Live-CD. It =
worked.

Like other forms of booting FreeBSD from a 10.x boot media, it may hang =
very early in the process (showing a blank/dark screen after clearing =
the openfirmware black-on-white screen) and have to be retried. (In fact =
I had that issue during my experiment.)

I think the is the first 10.x prebuilt .iso download vintage with Nathan =
Whitehorn's fix/work-around included and so is the first 10.x CD burn to =
be so bootable in a long time. (Before it would consistently hang while =
in the loading activity, during the openfirmware display time frame.) =
For those wanting/needing to use CD media built from the .iso's: Thanks =
Nathan.

(I do not know about the sparc64 status: I do not have access to such a =
context. Something had been written before about the sparc64's 64-bit, =
big endian context also having a similar issue booting from CD burns of =
the sparc64 .iso's.)



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Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net




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