March bsdinstaller snapshot

[Justin Hibbits]

On Apr 10, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Super Bisquit wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Super Bisquit  
> <superbisquit at gmail.com> wrote:
> What happens if you boot from the OF prompt?
>
> On 4/10/11, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:
> > Nathan & list,
> >
> > I just tried booting the bsdinstaller snapshot from March for  
> ppc32 on
> > a last generation PowerBook G4 (HiRes 1.67GHz), but it shuts down  
> very
> > shortly after starting to boot the kernel (I see the line "WITNESS
> > support enabled...", and it shuts down right after I finish reading
> > that line, there are a couple more lines, but I can't read them).
> >
> > Anyone else see this?
>
> If you have a stable kernel, try placing it on a usb key and booting  
> that kernel with the cd.
>
> That may work, I'm taking a wild guess.
> >
> > - Justin

The same CD boots on a 1GHz G4 TiBook.

Live CD is pretty slick on my TiBook.

Just to be clear, I just noticed there are two WITNESS lines in  
dmesg.  On the AlBook, it stops really close to the first one, not the  
last one.  I have not tried another kernel on the AlBook.

- Justin