ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 07/16/10 09:33, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> 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?
>   

This bug with the hard drives not being detected is now fixed with
r212359. I'll reroll install CDs in a day or two with the fix. Thanks to
everyone who reported it.
-Nathan