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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:56:25 -0800
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org, jau789@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Booting freebsd on a powermac g4 from a CD
Message-ID:  <546E3959.5020904@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <546E38E4.70305@gmail.com>
References:  <546E38E4.70305@gmail.com>

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You should just be able to insert the CD and hold 'C'. Does that not 
work for you? What model of G4 is this?
-Nathan

On 11/20/14 10:54, Jukka Ukkonen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> What might be the current official method or at least known
> working method for booting FreeBSD on a PowerMac G4 from a CD?
>
> After 10.1 update my installed kernel hangs after probing
> gem0. When the MAC address has been displayed there is no
> more output, and the boot time autoconfig never proceeds
> any further.
> Now I would like to try booting an alternate (probably also
> older) version of FreeBSD from CD to try to fix the system.
> The old examples I have found for booting from CD do not seem
> to work.
>
> --jau
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