Installation of 9.2 or 10.0-RC2 to Powerbook G4 1.67

[Nathan Whitehorn]

You've unfortunately found the one New World machine that has never
worked properly under FreeBSD! So 8.x won't help. Probably you will just
have to wait for the time being. Your other hardware should work
perfectly well, however.
-Nathan

On 01/03/14 18:56, Britt Dodd wrote:
> 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
>>
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