ppc64 hangs at loader while booting PowerMac G5 from 10.1R CD installer

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Mon May 11 23:17:50 UTC 2015


11-current or 10.0 or 10-stable should all work (there was a bug in 
loader booting from CD for 10.1). The 10.1 memstick image will also work.
-Nathan

On 05/11/15 15:57, Benjamin Brink via freebsd-ppc wrote:
> Just saw this thread:
>
> FreeBSD 10.1 PPC64 on XServe G5 hangs at Openfirmware Loader [USB 
> stick booting a PowerMac G5]
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2014-December/007345.html
>
> FYI am getting similar symptoms on boot here.
>
>
> With 2 CDRs left, I'm going to try 10.1Release (32-bit) .iso  and 
> 11-Current powerpc64 .iso
>
> If I'll be super pleased if able to use open-source shell/xterm on 
> system to ssh into FOSS bastion host for open source programming.
>
> osx10.4's terminal has been a good sport, but is starting to drop 
> sessions..
>
> cheers,
> Benjamin
>
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