Installation of 9.2 or 10.0-RC2 to Powerbook G4 1.67

[Britton Dodd]

Guess I shouldn’t buy a lottery ticket then !



Thanks for all the help. I’ll start building my Xserve then in the mean time.


On Jan 3, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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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