8.1-RC1 fails to boot on iBook G4

[Paul Mather]

I just tried to book the 8.1-RC1 disc1 ISO on an iBook G4 but it failed to boot into FreeBSD.  I was left at the Open Firmware prompt.  Is FreeBSD known not to work on an iBook G4?  I was able to boot successfully into the FreeBSD installer using this same disc on a PowerBook G4.

This is the output I get booting from the CD by holding down "C" during power on (this is typing the output by hand, so errors are possible:):


Consoles: Open Firmware console

FreeBSD/powerpc Open Firmware loader, Revision 0.1
(root at xserve.lan.xcllnt.net, Mon Jun 14 22:46:01 UTC 2010)
Memory: 1310720KB
Booted from: /pci at f2000000/mac-io at 17/ata-3 at 20000/disk at 0

Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel/kernel data=0x72c6b8+0x3e280 syms=[0x4+0x5ac60+0x4+0x7d924]
-
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
Kernel entry at 0x100100 ...

Decrementer exception at   %SRR0: 00100100   %SRR1: 10003030

Apple PowerBook6,5 4.8.7f1 BootROM built on 09/23/04 at 16:13:38
Copyright 1994-2004 Apple Computer, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.

Welcome to Open Firmware, the system time and date is: 01:53:56 06/17/2010

To continue booting, type "mac-boot" and press return.
To shut down, type "shut-down" and press return.

 ok
0 > _



Cheers,

Paul.