Re: 11.2 Installer Issues on G5

Justin Hibbits <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

It is normal for the LED to turn off.  You can manually turn it on
(there's a /dev/led for 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

On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 02:56:56 +0000
koa~ via freebsd-ppc <[email protected]> wrote:

> So I tried booting the installer again and for some reason it worked,
> but the problem seems to exist in the installed system too.
> At random times it'd just hang while I'm using it and the red #7 LED
> will light up. There's no error messages or panics that I can see.
> 
> Also, is it normal/expected that the white front LED will be turned
> off whenever I boot FreeBSD?-------- Original Message --------
> On Aug 25, 2018, 21:27, koa~ wrote:
> 
> > Hello all, new user here.
> >
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 11.2 powerpc64 on a Power Mac G5
> > (11,2 2 GHz dual-core model), using the memstick image. It boots
> > just fine, but a few minutes into the installation process, the
> > installer would freeze. There's no error message that I can see,
> > but the front light turns red (from the usual white). Anything I
> > can do to make the installer run successfully? The machine works
> > just fine with Mac OS, by the way.  
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