Re: recent problems with PowerMac G5 64 bit USB

On 12/9/18 4:46 PM, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>> On 9. Dec 2018, at 22:26, Tom Pusateri <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I dusted off a PowerMac dual CPU G5 the other day ...

I have one of those running well.

If you drop in on the irc chan I can walk you through the oddities and
secret magic step by step. Even then you may have some weird issues but
I have 12.0RC3 running fine and know what you will hit.

You can read all aboit it if you like :

     https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233579

However really all you need to do is hold down the 'C' key on your
keyboard and the machine should boot to the dvd. When you see the loader
start to do something on the screen wait for the countdown message. You
will see the thing count down from 10 ... 9.... 8.... 7... and it isn't
an explosive device.  Just hit some letter on the keyboard and you
should see a prompt.

Type in :

   set kern.smp.disabled=1

   set debug.verbose_sysinit=1

You don't really need that second one but verbose never hurt anyone. Much.

Then type 'boot -sv' and hit enter for a verbose single user mode boot
process.

That should get you a running live shell from the dvd and you will be
asked for what shell you want to run. Just hit enter. You will get a
prompt.

If all that runs then you can type 'exit' and hit enter and then the
rest of the whole installer process will begin. It is fairly trivial
and be sure to just use the whole disk guided UFS made easy way of
things.

Dennis Clarke


ps: you don't need the 'boot -sv' either. Just 'boot' works too but
     doesn't everyone like to see a shell prompt from install media?
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