Hello everyone,
I have an iMac G5 (I believe it's the revision B one) that I can't seem to get FreeBSD installed on. I didn't see a point in paying $150 for OS X 10.5, so dual-booting is not a a concern here.
When I load the powerpc ISO of FreeBSD 8, the ISO boots fine into the installer. However, when I get to the disklabel portion, it doesn't see any disks. The editor is blank. I know the hard drive still works because I'm able to successfully install Debian and OpenBSD onto it (although OpenBSD doesn't boot afterwards). If I try to create a partition, it won't let me. If I try to create a filesystem in the void, the installer catches a Signal 11 and promptly reboots. Enabling boot -v didn't seem to reveal anything else.
For the powerpc64 ISO of FreeBSD 9, the CD boots until it hits this line:
This continues onward for eternity. I looked up what can cause this and some people say that it's the firewire device that FreeBSD has trouble with. But seeing as how iMacs don't use a BIOS, I don't know of a straightforward way to disable it. I'm assuming I could do something with OpenFirmware, but Apple's documentation doesn't seem to reveal anything.
If anyone had dealt with FreeBSD on PPC, what are some things I could try?
Thanks!
I have an iMac G5 (I believe it's the revision B one) that I can't seem to get FreeBSD installed on. I didn't see a point in paying $150 for OS X 10.5, so dual-booting is not a a concern here.
When I load the powerpc ISO of FreeBSD 8, the ISO boots fine into the installer. However, when I get to the disklabel portion, it doesn't see any disks. The editor is blank. I know the hard drive still works because I'm able to successfully install Debian and OpenBSD onto it (although OpenBSD doesn't boot afterwards). If I try to create a partition, it won't let me. If I try to create a filesystem in the void, the installer catches a Signal 11 and promptly reboots. Enabling boot -v didn't seem to reveal anything else.
For the powerpc64 ISO of FreeBSD 9, the CD boots until it hits this line:
Code:
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for xpt_config
If anyone had dealt with FreeBSD on PPC, what are some things I could try?
Thanks!