FreeBSD 10.1 PPC64 on XServe G5 hangs at Openfirmware Loader

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 5 16:30:56 UTC 2015


I've fixed this in HEAD and it will be MFCed in a week. I'll see if we 
can build new 10.1 disks. Thanks for the reports!
-Nathan

On 12/18/14 14:34, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> That sounds like something ended up broken on the 10.1 ISOs. Drat. 
> Maybe we can issue an erratum.
> -Nathan
>
> On 12/18/14 12:39, Britt Dodd wrote:
>> 9.3 seems to be booting just fine...
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Britt Dodd <brittman914 at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Yes --- I'm using disk1 to do this. I'm trying 9.3 now.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Nathan Whitehorn 
>>> <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/18/14 09:29, Britt Dodd wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to resurrect my XServe G5 and load FreeBSD 10.1 on it. 
>>>>> It gets
>>>>> to the "Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf" part and just hangs after
>>>>> about
>>>>> five seconds. Is this normal, or do I need to reset NVRAM/PRAM or
>>>>> something? 10.0-RC3 does boot fine on the same machine.
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>>>> That is not normal, no. Are you booting from the CD?
>>>> -Nathan
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