Re: PowerMac G4 unable to auto-boot with FBSD 12.2-RELEASE
Mehul Sanghvi <[email protected]>
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One thing I had not tried before was resetting the PRAM. I did that a couple of times using Command-Option-p-r and everything is working fine
cheers,
mehul
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> On Nov 4, 2020, at 19:36, Mehul Sanghvi <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Background:
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> I have installed FreeBSD/powerpc 12.2-RELEASE on a PowerMac G4. I initially had FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE installed, but that kept randomly rebooting.
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> I switched to NetBSD/macppc and that worked just fine.
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> With 12.2 released I decided to try again with FreeBSD.
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> The installation went fine. From the OF boot prompt, I am able to boot using:
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> boot hd:2,\ppc\boot1.elf
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> FBSD will boot up, I can login and use the system as normal. If I set ‘auto-boot?’ to true, I am unable to boot into FBSD.
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> I have boot-device set to “hd:2,\ppc\boot1.elf”
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> Is there anything else I need to setup? When I had 12.0 installed it would boot as expected.
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