From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 31 22:29:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24B6661 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:29:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from adsum.doit.wisc.edu (adsum.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA76E84B for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:29:16 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Received: from terminus.icecube.wisc.edu (i3-user-nat.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.12]) by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0MHI00D52H4KFQ00@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:29:10 -0600 (CST) X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-1, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2013.1.31.221515, SenderIP=128.104.255.12 X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=128.104.255.12 X-Wisc-Sender: whitehorn@wisc.edu Message-id: <510AF034.4060606@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:29:08 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130111 Thunderbird/17.0.2 To: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia Subject: Re: 9.0 iso files References: <510AC70F.4090803@freebsd.org> <83B096F3-D0EE-464E-B1CB-9AB83B383D8A@freedesktop.org> In-reply-to: <83B096F3-D0EE-464E-B1CB-9AB83B383D8A@freedesktop.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:29:17 -0000 On 01/31/13 15:06, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote: > On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > >> On 01/30/13 22:35, Super Bisquit wrote: >>> I've seen that the problem with 9.x has occurred with others. >>> >>> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=206473#post206473 >>> >>> Have the images been updated as of yet? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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" >> It's a bug in the Mac OS X kernel -- the disks work perfectly fine if you boot off of them. The 9.1 disks have a slightly different format that doesn't cause stack corruption inside Darwin and so won't crash OS X if you try to mount them. > The reported error in that thread as I read it is essentially, "During (FreeBSD) kernel initialization the cpu fetched an exception in kernel mode and shutdown the PowerBook immediately." … how does that have anything to do with xnu? > > The top post 10 posts are about XNU (and I know about that behavior on my own hardware -- the bug is still there at least in 10.6.8). The second post, which I hadn't looked at, is at #11. Don't know what's going on there -- would be nice to have some more information about the hardware than "Powerbook G4". -Nathan