panic booting install CD

[Tim Simmons]

Stick a fork in this one, Peter. Works perfectly.

Tim Simmons
IT Technician
Champion Realty, Inc.
TimSimmons at ChampionRealty.Com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Grehan [mailto:grehan at freebsd.org] 
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 2:17 AM
To: Tim Simmons
Cc: 'Graham J Lee'; freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: panic booting install CD

Hi all,

  I think I have a fix for the 'curthread != NULL' panic seen on some 
machines when booting. I can now hold down the 'C' key and boot on the 
old eMac.

  I've put up a tiny (4Mb) test iso image that contains just the loader, 
CHRP boot script and kernel:

   http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/sprg_test.iso

  Would those affected be able to give it a go ? The kernel should now 
get to the 'mountroot>' prompt.

later,

Peter.