IMAC G3 (700Mhz) 7.2 & 8.0 install fails with "fatal kernel
trap:"
Super Biscuit
super_bisquit at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 21 14:56:00 UTC 2010
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/FreeBSD-9.0-20100418-SNAP-powerpc/
--- On Sat, 6/19/10, tom armistead <tom.armistead at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: tom armistead <tom.armistead at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: IMAC G3 (700Mhz) 7.2 & 8.0 install fails with "fatal kernel trap:"
To: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org
Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 11:01 PM
Thanks -- I've now tried 8.1 RC1 and found it failed in the same way.
There are no messages from the kernel prior to the fatal kernel trap message.
I did some investigation...
The failure messages displayed with the 8.1 RC1 install attempt are:
fatal kernel trap:
exception = 0x4 (instruction storage trap)
virtual address = 0x59f3e8
srr0 = 0x59f3e8
srr1 = 0x8003030
lr = 0x5c27bc
curthread =0x83fb50
pid = 0, com =
panic: instruction storage trap
Uptime: 1s
I disassembled the kernel and it looks like the failing address is in the subroutine moea_bootstrap().
59f3d8: 60 00 00 00 nop
59f3dc: 60 00 00 00 nop
59f3e0: 7d 30 83 a6 mtibatu 0,r9
59f3e4: 7c 11 83 a6 mtibatl 0,r0
59f3e8: 4c 00 01 2c isync <<<< failure address
59f3ec: 7d 38 83 a6 mtdbatu 0,r9
59f3f0: 7c 19 83 a6 mtdbatl 0,r0
And I found a previous problem report that looks like the same issue:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2008-March/002661.html
There was a fix for that issue but it looks like it doesn't work for the CPU on the 700Mhz iMAC.
I think to really solve this problem, you have to shut off translation, load the BATs and then re-enable translation. When I patched in a segment of code to do just that, the kernel booted and the installer started up.
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I know that I have mentioned this before and was ignored; so, I will mention it again.
Have you tried using the 9.0 SNAPSHOT to see if it would work?
None of the others worked for me except that one.
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