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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> On 14. Nov 2018, at 18:02, Justin Hibbits <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:52:45 -0500 > Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> <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. > > You can do it at the loader. > > set kern.smp.disabled=1 > boot > >> >>>> 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. > > It could until recently, due to my fault. I can revert the change that > caused it, but haven't yet, because I don't understand why it's causing I think I tried a kernel with you change reverted. It didn't fix the problem. I can try again, but at that time the problem was not only related to the one commit. Best regards Michael > the problem. And I'm pretty confident it's not causing the mountroot > issue (though, I was pretty confident it wouldn't cause any problem > anyway, but that turned out to be false confidence). > >> >> Dennis Clarke > > Can you somehow get a dmesg dump to post to the list? I'm very curious > to see what could be causing the problem you're seeing. > > - Justin > _______________________________________________ > [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]"