Panic on install boot

[Alexander Bakst]

Perfect. Maybe if I can find some spare cycles I can look into 
contributing somehow. I spent the first hour of work today looking at 
ibm's power 970 manual.

--Alexander

On 2/22/10 11:05 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> Yes, you just need to upgrade to the latest sources in -CURRENT. 
> Follow the source upgrade directions in the handbook 
> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html), 
> starting in the section titled "Tracking a development branch". You 
> shouldn't have to live with your computer sounding like it is full of 
> angry bees for more than an hour or so.
> -Nathan
>
> Alexander Bakst wrote:
>> 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
>