11.2 Installer Issues on G5

Koakuma koachan at protonmail.com
Thu Sep 13 04:37:18 UTC 2018


On Sep 12, 2018, 21:52, Justin Hibbits  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is normal for the LED to turn off. You can manually turn it on
> (there's a /dev/led for it).
Hello, and thanks Justin.
Noted for when I can run FreeBSD smoothly on it.

> Regarding the installer hanging, I saw that back when the powerpc64
> port was originally done, on my dual-core 2GHz G5, but not on my DC
> 2.3GHz G5, so I do wonder if it's something related to that particular
> CPU stepping, or firmware.
>
> - Justin
Is there anything I could do to help debug/fix the issue?
I'd really like to run a modern OS on top of this machine.


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