From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 02:49:27 2015 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 DBF06C53 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asp.reflexion.net (outbound-240.asp.reflexion.net [69.84.129.240]) (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 8514DA1B for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17660 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2015 02:49:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-cs-02.app.dca.reflexion.local) (10.81.19.2) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with SMTP; 24 Jan 2015 02:49:25 -0000 Received: by mail-cs-02.app.dca.reflexion.local (Reflexion email security v7.40.0) with SMTP; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:49:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 6695 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2015 02:49:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iron2.pdx.net) (69.64.224.71) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 24 Jan 2015 02:49:25 -0000 X-No-Relay: not in my network X-No-Relay: not in my network Received: from [192.168.1.8] (c-67-189-19-145.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.189.19.145]) by iron2.pdx.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5CD881C4052; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:49:19 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Millard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: FreeBSD 10.1 PPC64 on XServe G5 hangs at Openfirmware Loader [-r277483's .iso's can boot quad-core PowerMac!] Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:49:23 -0800 Message-Id: To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.1 \(1993\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1993) 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: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:49:27 -0000 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