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.) =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net
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