FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA4 fails to boot on POWER9/KVM

[Dennis Clarke]

On 10/10/2018 11:59 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> The first part of this (all the errors about "NOT FOUND") I just fixed
> and the fixes will be included in BETA1 and subsequent builds. The
> remaining issue is that virtio SCSI is not part of the standard kernel
> on PPC (there are some endian and DMA bugs), so you will need to use an
> alternative storage backend. The default storage backend (VSCSI) is
> fine, as are more PC-ish things like AHCI emulation.
> 
> This command line will work and is otherwise equivalent to the below:
> qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -nographic -vga none -cdrom
> FreeBSD-12.0-ALPHA9-powerpc-powerpc64-20181009-r339271-disc1.iso
> /var/lib/libvirt/images/freebsd-ppc.qcow2 -mem-prealloc -mem-path
> /dev/hugepages -smp 2
> 
> -Nathan


Has anyone tried this on a PowerMac G5 yet ?

Dennis