Installation of 9.2 or 10.0-RC2 to Powerbook G4 1.67

[Britt Dodd]

Awesome! I've got it running on the G5 (Dual 2.3) and I'll load the G4
XServe running tomorrow.

Thank you for your contribution! I'm very excited to try it out
On Jan 18, 2014 7:27 PM, "Justin Hibbits" <chmeeedalf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Britt,
>
> I have just committed a fix for this in head, r260872.  I'll be MFCing
> it to stable/10 and stable/9 next week.  Until then, you could try
> building a bootable CD on another machine, for head, and give it a go.
>
> - Justin
>
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 18:56:55 -0500
> Britt Dodd <brittman914 at gmail.com> 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
> > >
>