Re: PowerMac G4 booting from memstick image
Mehul Sanghvi <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc |
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> On Apr 19, 2021, at 21:42 , Brandon Bergren <[email protected]> wrote: > > This may be caused by a descynced timebase. At the loader prompt, do "boot kern.smp.disabled=1" (or set it in the loader environment) and see if that fixes it. > This would be after installing freebsd yes ? >> >> Having gotten to the point of selecting Install, the keyboard wouldn’t >> work. An Apple keyboard, hooked up via KVM switch, which was working >> just fine upto that moment. > > I've seen this for some reason on ADB. I can usually work around it by using a USB keyboard. But it could be due to screwed up timers (due to timebase desync) > The Apple keyboard is an USB keyboard but I worked around it by using a spare USB keyboard I had. The ISO got past the mountroot issue, but too many messages of the form CAM status: CCB request completed with an error I may have to see if I have other USB flash dries around and try those. It could very well be the USB flash. I didn’t realize the G4s would be picky about the stick that is used. cheers, mehul _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"