Problems Installing FreeBSD-PPC

[Peter Grehan]

Hi David

> Now here lays the problem, I get to <mountroot> and I type NFS, and
> it spits out:
> 
> Mounting root from nfs Nfs_diskless: no interface Root mount failed:
> -1
  ...
> The iMac is a 400Mhz G3, 512MB RAM, 40GB IDE HDD, DVD Slot Loading
> Optical Drive, firewire, USB, etc ATI Rage 128 AGP (onboard) it is
> the first gen slot loading machine.

  This model might be the strange one that used the 21143 eth chip.
Would you be able to drop to the OFW prompt and do a

0 > dev enet
0 > .properties

  ... and see what the "compatible" property is. My suspicion is that
it will be "apple21143".

  If so, I'll put the dc driver into GENERIC and build you a kernel
to test.

later,

Peter.