PowerMac G5 and FreeBSD 9.0-current: no disks?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:19:59 -0800
Gary <gdriggs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hold down the left mouse button during power-on. Some drives in the
> G5s have a barely reachable eject button on the front if you pull down
> the drive slot door. One of mine actually had the physical eject
> button removed so it's a bit of a hassle if I want to swap install
> discs.

I should have been more specific; I want to open the cd drive from within FreeBSD.
(I knew about that mouse button down)

> I'm curious to try the version 9 image you're referring to as I'm
> unable to get SATA drives to appear from either the 8.2 RC1 release or
> Nathan's custom disc. Where are you getting the version 9 images?

I used the one linked to in Nathan's post on this mailing list, with the subject
"PowerPC installer".
And, as I wrote, on my machine I need to do a "boot -v" to have the disks recognized
by FreeBSD.
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Torfinn