(Edit: Sorry, I forgot to name the arch in the topic heading.)
I have installed FreeBSD-powerpc on an iMac DV (400Mhz, slot-loading) with 1Gb of RAM and a 40Gb Maxtor HD; actually I have installed it twice, once with 10 and now 9.2.
Both times my attempts to configure xorg failed after setting the
and resulted in a continuous loop of core crashes.
I found then that the only way to stop the cycle of rebooting and crashing (during boot) was through the boot-only cd, or booting into single-user mode. When I tried to run
in single-user mode, the crash happened again.
So, I now think that the crashes occur anytime the system tries to access the swap partition. (So, when savecore tries to access /var, or vi tries to create a buffer on /tmp.)
For both installations, I used the entire disk and accepted the "auto" partitioning scheme generated by sysinstall. But that only creates the Apple partition, plus a main ufs and a swap partition (though /var and /tmp are both on the main ufs).
I had thought that, since 9.2, sysinstall knows how to partition for ppc; is that not true? Do the mount points still need to be set up on separate partitions?
Can I do this using gpart on my running system, or do I have to reinstall for a third time?
I have installed FreeBSD-powerpc on an iMac DV (400Mhz, slot-loading) with 1Gb of RAM and a 40Gb Maxtor HD; actually I have installed it twice, once with 10 and now 9.2.
Both times my attempts to configure xorg failed after setting the
Code:
Option "VGAAccess" "True"
I found then that the only way to stop the cycle of rebooting and crashing (during boot) was through the boot-only cd, or booting into single-user mode. When I tried to run
Code:
vi
So, I now think that the crashes occur anytime the system tries to access the swap partition. (So, when savecore tries to access /var, or vi tries to create a buffer on /tmp.)
For both installations, I used the entire disk and accepted the "auto" partitioning scheme generated by sysinstall. But that only creates the Apple partition, plus a main ufs and a swap partition (though /var and /tmp are both on the main ufs).
I had thought that, since 9.2, sysinstall knows how to partition for ppc; is that not true? Do the mount points still need to be set up on separate partitions?
Can I do this using gpart on my running system, or do I have to reinstall for a third time?