ernie said:Tried the 8.1-RELENG_8-20101202-JPSNAP CD on a new Mac Mini, it boots! However the installer can't find any hard drives to install on. This is the same problem the Linux kernels before 2.6.35 had, not talking to the MCP89 controller chip correctly. Unfortunately I don't know the specifics of the problem, or how the Linux kernel solved it.
erok said:noob question: and how should I do that?
jkim@ said:If you can test the following patch, please let me know the result.
http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/apple_mcp89.diff
jkim@ said:Also, I'd like to see [cmd=]pciconf -clv[/cmd] output.
jkim@ said:If you can test the following patch, please let me know the result.
http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/apple_mcp89.diff
de0u said:I built a GENERIC kernel on my memstick. If I use the CD to boot into the loader and load the kernel and the mfsroot from the memstick, I can then see both the disk (ad4) and the DVD drive (acd0). There is a complaint about each that it is UDMA33 because the cabling is "non-ATA66" (which I guess SATA isn't going to qualify as?): http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~de0u/dmesg_UDMA33
Next I will re-partition the disk and try an actual install.
jkim@ said:
jkim@ said:Great. You can safely ignore the warning. Can you please try one more patch?
http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/apple_mcp89_2.diff
This patch may not work at all but I want to make sure.
ummon said:Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on my Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro and was running into a problem.
When I boot the install CD, it starts printing hardware information and appears to freeze at:
ElectrumRay said:Hi!! i've bought a newer white macbook (7,1) and actually I've tried several distributions (including 9.0). All my attempts failed (some distributions do not detect sata, others do not detect keyboard)... but I'm happy to know that there's a patch... jkim@ maybe also I can try the patch? Or it is only experimental with de0u??
ElectrumRay said:jkim@ maybe also I can try the patch? Or it is only experimental with de0u??
de0u said:If you want I can upload tonight a 8.2-RC2 memstick image which I have mutilated by (a) replacing /boot/kernel with a kernel compiled with jkim's first patch and (b) re-partitioned so it is 2G instead of 1G, so there is room for a kernel source tree, /usr/obj, etc.
ElectrumRay said:@deOu If it is uploaded, please tell me or post it.
NuLL3rr0r said:Hi jkim@,
I have a MacBook Pro 4.1 and I have this problem http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=22083 with 8.2 Release while 8.1 Release works fine.
Is this because of this changes you mentioned above?