9.0-RC1 crash on G5 (late 2005)

Justin Hibbits chmeeedalf at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 02:57:08 UTC 2011


On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:28:13 -0500
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 10/27/11 20:26, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> > I don't know the conditions of the crash, but sometime after
> > booting, can happen right away, or later, my G5 just stops.  No
> > kernel panic, no messages, it just stops.  The red light in the
> > case comes on, and it just sits there.
> >
> > Hardware:  Late 2005 model G5, Dual-core 2.0GHz, 4GB RAM.
> >
> > Anything else I can provide, just ask.  Can't provide a coredump,
> > dmesg, or anything else like that, though (machine just dies).
> >
> 
> Is this a 32 or a 64-bit kernel? I have the same model, with a 64-bit 
> kernel, as my primary desktop, and have never seen anything like this.
> -Nathan

Hey Nathan,

I just tried -BETA1, 64-bit, on the machine, and it locked the same
way.  Anything that I can do?

- Justin


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