8.1-RC1 fails to boot on iBook G4

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 06/16/10 21:13, Paul Mather wrote:
> 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.
>    

That should work perfectly fine. I have a G4 iBook of the same model 
running FreeBSD.

> Decrementer exception at   %SRR0: 00100100   %SRR1: 10003030
>    

This is a very rare race during early initialization that happens on 
some machines and that no one has been able to track down. A timer seems 
to have gone off in the middle of the OF->kernel transition. It's 
possible that if you wait a different amount of time at the boot prompt 
it won't happen.
-Nathan