What machine(s) is the PPC iso suposed to boot on?

[David Frascone]

Strange -- it didn't -- so now I'm repartitioning with the OS/X cd to see if
I have to leave space *free* for things to work.

-Dave

On Dec 13, 2007 6:07 PM, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:

> The 'C' trick got it booting (I'm such a noob) -- but 7.0b4 still died at
> "Error mounting /dev/ad0s9 on /mnt: Operation no permitted", after creating
> the filesystems.
>
> I'll download 6.2 RELEASE and see if it fares any better.
>
> -Dave
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 4:43 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > > It doesn't boot in qemu-system-ppc
> >
> >  Known issue (as of yesterday). Not sure if that will be fixed anytime
> > soon.
> >
> > > or on an iBook g4.
> >
> >  Which model iBook ?
> >
> >  I've had success with 7.0-BETA3 on a B&W G3, 450MHz G4, PowerBook G4
> > and a G4 dome iMac.
> >
> >  Are you doing a 'C' boot ? If so and that's not working, are you able
> > to drop into OpenFirmware and do a
> >
> > 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0
> >
> > later,
> >
> > Peter.
> >
>
>