Installation of 9.2 or 10.0-RC2 to Powerbook G4 1.67

[Justin Hibbits]

Hi Britt,

On Jan 3, 2014 12:21 PM, "Britt Dodd" <brittman914 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good afternoon,
>
> I'd like to begin by saying that while I do have a bunch of x86 systems,
> I'd also like to make (limited) use of powerpc hardware -- mainly a
> Powerbook G4, an XServe G5 and a XServe G4 (it'll be the 'garage mac').
>
> OSX support died with 10.5. A bunch of Linux distros totally dropped
> building for ppc/32. I'm starting to really get attached to running
FreeBSD
> and would like to install it on my powerpc equipment.
>
> I attempted to load the LiveCD in my powerbook, and maybe 2 seconds into
> bootup (with tty output on screen) the entire system abruptly shuts off.
>
> Any hints?
>
>
> Britt

I see this very issue, and I think it is caused by the PMU being
initialized early, and not emptying the mailbox.  I will be testing a patch
in the next few weeks when I get time to tackle this, and hopefully a fix
will be in soon.

-Justin