G5 FreeBSD/ppc64

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:02:56 -0700
Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at freedesktop.org> wrote:

> 
> 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

Interesting, I've tried the same image on my G5 Quad[1], and from my FreeBSD notes[2] it booted without problems. See the first 2011-03-12 entry (at the bootom of the page).

References:
1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g5_quad
2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g5_quad_freebsd
-- 
Torfinn