Installer problems with 11.0-RC3

[Roger Leigh]

On 17/09/2016 23:46, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:39:41 +0000
> Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> wrote:
>
>> Up until now, my G4 Mac Mini has been running 10.3-RELEASE.  Today, I
>> tried the 11.0-RC3 installer.  Two issues noted:
>>
>> 1) The colours in the installer are different than the PC installer.
>> The background is a mid brown with yellow text.  An issue with the
>> console framebuffer?
>>
>> 2) It won't boot after the installer finished.
>>      Invalid memory access at %SRR0: 018011f0    %SRR1: 00003030
>
> I just fixed the second issue, which should be going into the next ISO
> (RC4? Final? Not sure at this point), but the initial commit was to
> head at r305894, and finally merged to 11.0 (by way of stable/11) in
> r305904 if you're curious.

Super, thanks.  I'll retry this with the next ISO release.

> Regarding the framebuffer colors, I believe that's a known issue.  I
> know I've run into it.  It may be video card specific (ATI vs NVidia),
> but I'm not sure.

OK.  It's an ATI in this machine.  Likely an endianness issue?



Thanks,
Roger