Installation of 9.2 or 10.0-RC2 to Powerbook G4 1.67

[Britt Dodd]

Excellent! If *anybody* needs ppc32/ppc64 testing or shell access for
compiling, please message me.

Thanks Justin for your reply. Is this error present in 8.x releases? Do you
think I could run 8.x until the patch comes out, and then somehow upgrade
to 10.0-RC2+?




On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu>wrote:

> 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
>