iBook powerpc FreeBSD

[Sean Welch]

Thanks!  I can't use the hard drive anyway -- my girlfriend
would have a fit if all the sudden her nice shiny OS X 
interface turned into a command line FreeBSD.  ;-)

I'll give it a try this evening if I get a chance.

Sean
  
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:39:57PM -0500, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> 
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:48:18 -0600
> Sean Welch <Sean_Welch at alum.wofford.org> wrote:
> 
> > When it did get into the black screen scrolling mode
> > it chugged for a bit and then hung.  I can't get a 
> > screen copy of it because it is on the powerbook screen
> > but I can tell you that it hangs right after the two
> > lines reading:
> > 
> > pcib2: <Apple UniNorth Host-PCI bridge> on nexus0
> > pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
> 
> Yes, I recently started getting the same thing on my 15" pb. It seems
> that the problem is with the ATA driver. It could be that either the
> kauai driver(which seemed to work before, but maybe I did not test it
> well enough), or something changed in the machine independent ATA
> stuff.. A quick workaround, until the problem is fixed, is to disable
> ATA from the kernel (the hard drive will not work, though). You can find
> such a kernel at:
> http://www.segfaulted.com/stuff/freebsd-ppc/kernel.noata
> 
> Later,
>   Suleiman Souhlal