Re: G5 support

Michael Tuexen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 19. Jun 2018, at 15:44, Nathan Whitehorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If they don't boot, what errors do you get, if any? G5s on FreeBSD are usually boringly stable (mine are, certainly, currently running HEAD @ r333927).
For example the messages end in (typed from screen):

(aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTIFY. ACB: ec 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00
(aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
(aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): Retrying command, 0 more tries remain
(aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTIFY. ACB: ec 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00
(aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
(aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): Error 5, retries exhausted

which then is repeated a couple of times, and then the mountroot prompt shows up.

I installed FreeBSD on this disk, compiled a kernel, compiled a couple of
ports...

Sometimes it boots... Any idea what could be wrong?

Best regards
Michael
> -Nathan
> 
> On 06/19/18 06:29, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I have a couple of Dual core PowerMacs (PowerMac7,3) and they run Mac OS fine.
>> Installing FreeBSD head of a couple of days ago also works fine, but the systems
>> * don't boot reliably
>> * once they boot they run fine for a while and then they shutdown
>> Since they are running fine under Mac OS, I don't think there is a hardware
>> error. Are these issues known? Anything I could try to improve the situation?
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Michael
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