Re: head -r365932 on PowerMac G5 (2 dual-core sockets): Crashe s before login prompt if powerd is enabled in /etc/rc.conf

"Brandon Bergren" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, at 7:50 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020-Sep-22, at 17:18, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > By "immediately" I mean I do not even get close to
> > seeing the loader prompt. The display still shows
> > OpenFirmware content: it has not been cleared yet.
> > 
> 
> Just to be explicit: the dual socket G4 is the only type
> of G3/G4 that does make it to the loader prompt (and a
> little beyond). The G5 2 dual-core sockets is the only
> context that I've tried that gets very far past the
> loader prompt.

This is strange. Loader works just fine on all of my G4 equipment.

Are you making sure to use the "dev /memory@0 100000 1000 do-unmap" trick on 4.8.7f1 devices?

How are you starting loader?

Is this on cdrom, network, or usb?

To confirm, it doesn't get as far as the kernel loading spinner?

-- 
  Brandon Bergren
  [email protected]
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