Trying to boot FBSD on g3 B&W

[Soeren Straarup]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:06:13PM -0700, Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi Soeren,
> 
> >I have put up the dmesg from my boot attemp:
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~xride/dmesg.g3bnw-20061025.txt
> >But i can't install sysinstall doesn't see ad0.
> 
>  The CMD 646U2 is a notoriously bad ATA controller :)
> 
>  I think if you break into the loader and disable ATA DMA:
> 
>  set hw.ata.ata_dma=0
> 
>  And probably disable it for atapi as well:
> 
>  set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0

I'll try that one

> 
> >All the onboard nic is not found.
> 
>  Yep, it's not supported. I used an Intel fxp in one of the PCI slots: 
> works fine.

Would any PC PCI nic work? That is supported by FreeBSD i386.

> 
>  The on-board NIC is a non-PCI Apple custom: the BMAC chip, which uses 
> the DMA controller in the macio chip.
> 
> >Where can i still digging in the src tree? i'm trying to learn more.
> 
>  The mac stuff is in the sys/powerpc/powermac directory. The files that 
> apply to the B&W are grackle* and hrowpic*

Hmm after a short look at those files, it looks like they haven't been
changed between 200608 and 200610.
Where does the boot sector for the iso live?

Has the way the install cds are created changed?

/Soeren

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Soeren Straarup   | aka OZ2DAK aka Xride
FreeBSD committer | FreeBSD since 2.2.6-R
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