Re: recent problems with PowerMac G5 64 bit USB

Tom Pusateri <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I sent a screenshot but that got dropped.

It says:

usb_alloc_device: set address 3 failed (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT, ignored)
usbd_setup_device_desc: getting device descriptor at addr 3 failed, USB_ERR_TIMEOUT
usbd_req_re_enumerate: addr=3, set address failed! (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT, ignored)


> On Dec 9, 2018, at 5:22 PM, Tom Pusateri <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the detailed instructions.
> 
> I’m still getting USB timeouts even after setting kern.smp.disabled=1 and so no keyboard after boot -sv
> 
> 
> 
>> On Dec 9, 2018, at 5:00 PM, Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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