PowerBook G3 (Pismo/Firewire) Install CD Hangs

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 01/07/12 23:48, Mike Cochran wrote:
> Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help point me in the right direction.
>
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on my PowerBook G3 Pismo,
> but every time I boot the CD (which matches the MD5 hash, first thing
> I checked...) it never finishes booting. The last couple of messages
> on screen are below, then the cd stops spinning:
>
> gem0: 10kB RX FIFO, 4kB TX FIFO
> gem0: Ethernet address: (mac address...)
> sc0<System console>  on nexus0
> sc0: Unknown<16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>
> My thinking at first was possibly DMA trouble with the ATA controller,
> because I've noticed some people have had some issues on PowerMacs,
> but disabling DMA (set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0) didn't change anything.
> I'm at a loss as to what to do, any help would be appreciated. I'm
> hoping to breathe some fresh life into this laptop.
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions you guys might have,
> Mike Cochran
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Can you try a verbose boot (boot -v from the loader prompt)? That should 
at least give us some more information to work with.
-Nathan