ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT

[Bryan Vyhmeister]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Nathan Whitehorn
<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Gary <gdriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> boot from disc one fails to find my hard drives. passing the -v flag
>>> to the boot command doesn't work either.
>>
>> I had the same experience with my Dual 2.7 GHz PowerMac G5. I also
>> have a Dual 1.8 GHz PowerMac G5 that I can test on tomorrow or over
>> the weekend.
>
> Does a verbose boot provide any information from the ATA layer about why
> they are failing to attach?

I will try and determine that on the Dual 2.7. I just booted from
disc1 on the Dual 1.8 and no hard drives show up with 'boot' but they
do with 'boot -v'. I have been unable to use the livefs so far. I
burned it to a DVD and tried to boot from it but it won't boot. The
computer just spits it out when holding down C at startup. Using disc1
I was able to partition the Dual 1.8 system but I can't install the
boot loader without the livefs (I think anyway). Oddly, the livefs
mounts as an hfs filesystem on my Mac. Is that correct?

Bryan