Re: PowerMac G4 unable to auto-boot with FBSD 12.2-RELEASE

Mehul Sanghvi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
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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:
> 
> Background:
> ==========
> 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.
> 
> I switched to NetBSD/macppc and that worked just fine. 
> 
> With 12.2 released I decided to try again with FreeBSD.  
> 
> The installation went fine.  From the OF boot prompt, I am able to boot using:
> 
>         boot hd:2,\ppc\boot1.elf
> 
> 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.   
> 
> I have boot-device set to “hd:2,\ppc\boot1.elf”
> 
> Is there anything else I need to setup?   When I had 12.0 installed it would boot as expected. 
> 
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