11.1 release CD image panics very early during boot on ppc.

[Jukka Ukkonen]

> On 17 Apr 2018, at 18.11, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 2:10 AM, Jukka Ukkonen <jau789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I had a bit of an accident with my old PowerMac G4 which had been
>> running FreeBSD-10.4. To fix the mess I had to boot the system from
>> a CD image. So, I decided to try 11.1 while at it. To my astonishment
>> and disappointment the 11.1 images (both CD and DVD) paniced
>> very early on during the boot. The messages flashed past the screen
>> so quickly that I cannot be really sure about anything, but it kind of
>> seemed like the issue might be yet another installment of the SPRG
>> related problems (in ofw_machdep.c) which have been troubling
>> ppc64 systems before.
>> The 10.4 CD image boots just fine on ppc.
>> 
>> --jau
> 
> Can you try booting with 'boot -v' and also setting at the loader
> debug.debugger_on_panic=1?  I think it's set to 0 on release ISOs, so
> this should let you get a screen capture.
> 
> - Justin

I will try, but it might have to wait until the weekend.

--jau