11.2-RC3 powerpc CD image does not boot on PowerMac G4

[Jukka Ukkonen]

PowerMac G4 QuickSilver, Jan-Aug 2002.
2 CPUs, PowerPC 7455 rev 2.1 @1GHz
1 GiB memory

The system goes south so hard there is no panic message.
The display just goes black for half a minute or so and then
a reboot.

--jau


> On 25 Jun 2018, at 18.11, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Do you have any more information on this? Model number, panic message, etc.? It seems to work fine on other hardware.
> -Nathan
> 
>> On 06/22/18 06:42, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote:
>> 
>> The 11.2-RC3 powerpc CD image does not boot on PowerMac G4.
>> It crashes during the kernel autoconfigure phase and tries
>> to reboot.
>> It is plain obvious that nobody has tested booting 11.2 ppc
>> at all before something related to booting and early autoconfig
>> activities has been committed. The last release which I know to
>> boot properly on PowerMac G4 is 10.4.
>> 
>> --jau
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