Getting IBM pSeries 520 to boot from FreeBSD disc

[Nathan Whitehorn]

We have limited support in -CURRENT (and in 10.0) for IBM hardware. At 
least the 520 can be netbooted into -CURRENT and works fine, although 
the internal SCSI controller is unsupported. I believe Andreas Tobler is 
working on a SCSI driver.

It sounds like there is some issue with the CD setup that needs to be 
debugged on certain firmwares. POWER LPARs with VIOS should work with 
10.0 (support may be a little better in -CURRENT) on any POWER system, 
up to and including the newest POWER7+ systems, with full support for 
storage and network. Advanced features like live partition migration and 
hotplug of memory are not currently supported, however.

Not a lot of direct testing has been done, but the general situation is 
that the PPC64 release should run on all POWER4/970 and newer hardware. 
POWER4 whole-machine partitions probably require a new interrupt 
controller driver, though LPARs should work (newer machines are all 
LPAR-mode, even with only one partition) Earlier machines may or may not 
work with the 32-bit release, depending on hardware drivers.
-Nathan

On 01/29/14 09:47, Vusa Moyo wrote:
> I Tried on a p570 and p770. Same issues. I believe by ppc they mean ex-Apple ppc. But I stand to be corrected.
>
> James Shaw <simba7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a pair of IBM pSeries 520 systems that I have been trying to install
>> FreeBSD onto. So far, it will load the bootloader, and that's it. It keeps
>> complaining that it can not find the kernel.
>>
>> I was wondering if there's a special setting that I'm missing or something.
>> I can get it to boot Debian just fine, but for some reason it has issues
>> with the FreeBSD 9.2 and 10.0-RELEASE discs.
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