Hve you tried with 4.8 RELEASE or STABLE?
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Luis Henriques <luis.hen...@gmail.com>wrote: > Still no progress with this... most probably, my box is not currently > supported. > > From the message below, one of 2 things may be happening: > - Either the ofwboot fails to load and jump into the bsd.rd, or > - There is a very early crash in the kernel. > > I have another macppc box running obsd, so I am able to actually hack > the kernel to try to figure out what's going on. Any ideas on > where/how to start? Is it worth starting with the ofwboot or the > problem is most probably on the kernel? > > (I was looking at the ofwboot code, and I can see some #ifdef > __notyet__ there. Any hints on what this code is supposed to do? I > know it is related with OF support...) > > Thanks, > -- > Luis > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:03 PM, <luis.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been trying to install a snapshot on a Power Mac G5, PowerMac7,2. > > No success... I'm able to boot from the CD, bootloader starts and hangs > > on: > > > > Loading ELF > >>> OpenBSD/macppc BOOT 1.1 > > boot> > > booting /ht/pci@5/ata-6/disk@0:/4.9/macppc/bsd.rd: 7707924+420312 > [82+147248+133394]=0x805198 > > > > Is there anything I could do to about it? Or is it just unsupported? > > From the list of supported hardware, I could see that some PowerMac7,2 > > are supported, but couln't find my graphic card... > > > > Here's what's on the box: > > > > Model Name: Power Mac G5 > > Model Identifier: PowerMac7,2 > > Processor Name: PowerPC 970 (2.2) > > Processor Speed: 2 GHz > > Number Of CPUs: 2 > > L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB > > Memory: 3.5 GB > > Bus Speed: 1 GHz > > Boot ROM Version: 5.0.7f0 > > > > Graphics: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro > > HD: Maxtor 7V250F0 > > > > Thanks > > -- > > Luis
