Hi List, I have a PowerMac7,2 Dual PPC970 which I attempting to put OpenBSD on. A post from last month (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ppc&m=141215377210183&w=2) indicated that they were having trouble with the root and swap partitions using the MP kernel, but that the SP kernel was working fine for them. I get stuck at the same point with both the MP and SP kernels, the final line I see during a boot is
root on wd0a (0dd4441153447d67.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b or occasionally drm: initializing kernel modesetting (R350 0x1002:0x4E48 0x1002:0x4E48) Then the system just hangs, eventually it spins up the fans and I power it off. I see similar behavior with SP and MP on both 5.5 and 5.6. bsd.rd works fine; I can complete the partitioning and labeling of the disk, install the sets and boot into bsd.rd and mount / (or any other partition). The problem only seems to happen when trying to boot the system with the SP or MP kernels. My guess was that this is related to the last bullet point under "Unsupported Hardware" which says that SATA "does not work on some PowerMac G5 and Xserve G5 systems". My wd0 is indeed SATA but I wanted to confirm that the problem I am having is a known issue. I am currently trying to extract a dmesg from the bsd.rd but I'm not having much luck. Thanks in advance, -Ian.
