Panic on install boot

[Alexander Bakst]

Thanks - to tell the truth, I installed Debian last night. However, I 
haven't quite committed to Debian, so I think I'll give this a shot. 
It'd be nice to learn an actual unix.

If I install the 9.0-SNAP image, is there also a way to pull in the 
changes to fix the fan issue?

Thanks,
Alexander

On 2/22/10 6:00 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> Alexander Bakst wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently got a power mac g5, and am trying to install freebsd 8.0. 
>> I am using "8.0-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1.iso". Immediately after 
>> booting, I get "panic: moea 64 bootstrap: too many ofw translations."
>>
>> Is there a fix for this issue?
>>
> There was a bug in the 8.0 install CDs that prevents them from booting 
> on a large number of G5 systems. You can use a 9.0-SNAP image I made 
> in November to get a bootable CD:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/9.0-20091112-SNAP/9.0-20091112-SNAP-powerpc-disc1.iso 
>
>
> Also, -CURRENT now has some updates to smu(4) that prevent the fans in 
> SMU-based machines from running at maximum all the time, which should 
> be MFCed shortly and will be in 8.1. Once those are MFCed in the next 
> week or two, I will make an 8.0-STABLE CD with those updates.
> -Nathan