G5 FreeBSD/ppc64

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Mar 13, 2011, at 15:21, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:

>> I'm guessing I should just burn this iso and have a go:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-powerpc64-20110308.iso.bz2
>> 
> 
> Good to hear! The ppc64 list is the same as the ppc one, and it's fairly low traffic. That ISO is the right one, with a caveat due to a bug in cdrtools that should be worked around soon, but for now you have to boot it by doing this at the OF prompt:
> boot cd:,\BOOT\LOADER;1 cd:0

So I just tried that on my Quad-G5 and got:

load-size=67d adler32=67d0001
unrecognized Client Program format

I burned the ISO from Disk Utility.app on OSX.  Here's the checksum:
SHA1(bsdinstall-powerpc64-20110308.iso)= e350edd3a72332a027e4dc71beda4cfd5cf3ec97

Thanks,
Jeremy