Re: after running the installer on a PowerMac G5 no root filesystem found
Dennis Clarke <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc |
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<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. >> 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. Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"