On 9 November 2011 10:54, Dale Rahn <dr...@dalerahn.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:58:47AM +0000, Kusalananda Andreas K?h?ri wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I have a dual core PowerMac G5, the type with three USB ports, so it's >> the early 2005 version of that model. >> >> I managed to boot bsd.rd from CDROM and to install the operating >> system on its SATA disk. >> >> Rebooting, I'm able to start loading the SMP kernel but I get a panic >> from the aoa driver. Disabling this, I get as far as the point when >> it's supposed to mount the file systems, which it obviously fails as >> SATA isn't supported. > > The SMP kernel does not work on G5, for now use the GENERIC (bsd) kernel.
Ah, I will try the bsd.sp kernel instead. >> Now I wonder, how come I was able to install the operating system on >> the SATA disk when booting bsd.rd off the CDROM? Is there any way to >> work with the system by getting it to not use SATA somehow? > > This quite surprised me as well. When I have had the time to try recently, > the disk on SATA was never found (I have a machine running of a USB memory > stick). I was hoping not to have to do this, but if I can't get the hard drive to function, then I might have to resort to running off a USB stick myself. >> I'm currently using the November 3 snapshot of macppc from >> ftp.mirrorservice.org. >> >> Sorry for the lack of dmesg and panic trace output. >> I'm going to try setting up a telnet connection to the machine tonight >> or sometime soon to capture this. > > I am currently in Portugal at a hackathon and will be back sometime next week > and will attempt to look at this then, please ping me if you have not heard > anything from me by next Wednesday. > Ok, thanks. In the meanwhile, I'll try to produce dmesg and panic traces for you (probably during the weekend or so). If I manage to extract the dmesg from both the bsd.sp and the bsd.rd kernels, I'll look at what the differences are with regards to wd, wdc etc. Kusalananda >> >> Kind regards, >> Kusalananda >> >> -- >> Dharmachari Kusalananda (Andreas Kdhdri) >> Somewhere in the general Cambridge area, UK. >> > Dale Rahn dr...@dalerahn.com > -- Dharmachari Kusalananda (Andreas Kdhdri) Somewhere in the general Cambridge area, UK.
