Error with Install CD on PPC iMac G3

[Ethan Grammatikidis]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017, at 07:35 PM, Garrett Zuhoski wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have an old iMac that I was wanting to play around with, and since linux
> has been dropping PPC support left and right, I figured this would be a
> good opportunity to play around with other Unices like FreeBSD.
> 
> Upon boot, the bootloader comes up and loads the kernel, then quickly
> scrolling text followed by a reboot of the machine.
> 
> Here is a photo of the error: http://i.imgur.com/ZgBBLjG.png
> 
> Someone on Freenode told me "the exc register is being set wrong clearly
> and getting into the wrong case of the switch block" (I'm not sure what
> that means)

i had the exact same experience with an ibook, and filed a bug:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217375

i'm amazed you managed to get a photo, i don't think i could, but then it's doubly hard to see on my ibook's old flat panel.

> 
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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