Re: after running the installer on a PowerMac G5 no root filesystem found
Michael Tuexen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> On 14. Nov 2018, at 09:10, Michael Tuexen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 13. Nov 2018, at 23:03, Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Not sure if this is a bug in the installer or what but I can tell you >> that the installer seems to do what it says it will do. I boot a G5 >> with the latest 12.0b4 installer dvd and go through the usual motions >> wherein I select a whole disk auto ufs install and allow the installer >> to do whatever magic it does for an Apple type partition. Every other >> type of partition results in a popup message that simply says this >> platform can not support or boot or grok this partition. So I go with >> the Apple type. Nothing else fancy here. >> >> 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. > > I had all sorts of problems until I disabled SMP on my G5 PowerMacs. > Without SMP they are running very stable. > > Best regards > Michael >> >> Dennis >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"