after running the installer on a PowerMac G5 no root filesystem found

[Michael Tuexen]

> On 14. Nov 2018, at 18:52, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 2018-Nov-14, at 09:15, Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen at macmic.franken.de> wrote:
> 
>>> On 14. Nov 2018, at 18:02, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:52:45 -0500
>>> Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> At first boot I get a load of text and then a strange prompt that
>>>>>>> seems to be asking where is the root filesystem? It also lists
>>>>>>> all the various filesystems found. I tried to enter
>>>>>>> ufs:/dev/adas2 and similar things but this gets me nothing but an
>>>>>>> unrecognized filesystem message.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So .. something obvious?  
>>>>>> Can you try setting the variable kern.smp.disabled to 1 at the
>>>>>> loader prompt?
>>>>>> If that helps, you can add
>>>>>> kern.smp.disabled=1
>>>>>> to /boot/leader.conf  
>>>>> I meant /boot/loader.conf.  
>>>> 
>>>> To do that at all I would need to be able to get to the root
>>>> filesystem.
>>> 
>>> You can do it at the loader.
>>> 
>>> set kern.smp.disabled=1
>>> boot
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> I had all sorts of problems until I disabled SMP on my G5
>>>>>> PowerMacs. Without SMP they are running very stable.  
>>>> 
>>>> So FreeBSD can not run on ye old IBM PPC970 units with multiple cores
>>>> or multiple sockets?  That sounds like a critical bug.
>>> 
>>> It could until recently, due to my fault.  I can revert the change that
>>> caused it, but haven't yet, because I don't understand why it's causing
>> I think I tried a kernel with you change reverted. It didn't fix the
>> problem. I can try again, but at that time the problem was not only
>> related to the one commit.
>> 
> 
> I'm still running with smp based on head -r339076 ( between ALPHA8 and
> ALPHA9) with smp on both G5 Quad Core (system total cores), 16 GiBytes
> RAM and 12 GiBytes RAM, and on G5 Dual processor, 8GiBytes RAM. (Same
> SSD moved between machines.) But I reverted the change Justin is
> talking about in order have smp working. I did not have to change
> anything else.
> 
> # svnlite diff /usr/src/sys/powerpc/include/vmparam.h
> Index: /usr/src/sys/powerpc/include/vmparam.h
> ===================================================================
> --- /usr/src/sys/powerpc/include/vmparam.h	(revision 339076)
> +++ /usr/src/sys/powerpc/include/vmparam.h	(working copy)
> @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
> 
> #ifdef __powerpc64__
> #define	VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS		0xe000000000000000UL
> -#define	VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS		0xe0000007ffffffffUL
> +#define	VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS		0xe0000001c7ffffffUL
> #define	VM_MAX_SAFE_KERNEL_ADDRESS	VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS
> #endif
> 
> 
> That revert was to have the "before -r334498" content for that file.
> Andreas Tobler reported confirming my findings in his context.
> 
> I note this mostly because Justin has reported no longer having such a
> machine to test on.
> 
> [I am slowly working on updating to 13.0 FreeBSD all the FreeBSD machines
> that I have ready access to. The powerpc families will be last.]
Let me retest...
> 
>>> the problem.  And I'm pretty confident it's not causing the mountroot
>>> issue (though, I was pretty confident it wouldn't cause any problem
>>> anyway, but that turned out to be false confidence).
> 
> FYI: I never saw such an issue for as far as I've gotten with the
> powerpc's.
I saw such things, too.

Best regards
Michael
> 
> 
> ===
> Mark Millard
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>