iBook powerpc FreeBSD

[Suleiman Souhlal]

Hi Sean,

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:48:18 -0600
Sean Welch <Sean_Welch at alum.wofford.org> wrote:

> When it did get into the black screen scrolling mode
> it chugged for a bit and then hung.  I can't get a 
> screen copy of it because it is on the powerbook screen
> but I can tell you that it hangs right after the two
> lines reading:
> 
> pcib2: <Apple UniNorth Host-PCI bridge> on nexus0
> pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2

Yes, I recently started getting the same thing on my 15" pb. It seems
that the problem is with the ATA driver. It could be that either the
kauai driver(which seemed to work before, but maybe I did not test it
well enough), or something changed in the machine independent ATA
stuff.. A quick workaround, until the problem is fixed, is to disable
ATA from the kernel (the hard drive will not work, though). You can find
such a kernel at:
http://www.segfaulted.com/stuff/freebsd-ppc/kernel.noata

Later,
  Suleiman Souhlal