Re: G5 support
Michael Tuexen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc |
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> On 19. Jun 2018, at 19:03, Rob Ballantyne <[email protected]> wrote: > > These messages indicate the system is having trouble figuring out your disk. It could be a 'bad' disk but I thought I would mention that I had similar problems (I didn't write them down so I can't absolutely confirm they are true) when I tried a new SATA3/flash drive on my system. It appears that SATA3/flash is not supported currently (I would suspect no hardware support). I'm using the drives that came with the systems... Just installed FreeBSD on it. Best regards Michael > > Regards, > Rob > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 7:18 AM Michael Tuexen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> [email protected] mailing list > >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"