PowerPC installer

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

Breaking news:

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:24:25 +0100
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:09:48 -0600
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > As part of my work on BSDInstall (http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall), 
> > I've produced an install CD that can set up a bootable system on Apple 
> > powerpc hardware. This may be useful to people trying to set up new 
> > machines. An ISO is here:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-powerpc-20110116.iso.bz2
> 
> Tested on my PowerMac G5[1] (yes - the one which probablyu has broken
> hardware), and the image booted fine, dtected the keyboard, and the
> started printing error messages from the cd drive. A few minutes later
> the fans come on full blast, and that's it.
> (I am beginning to suspect that FreeBSD currently do something
> differently than other OS'es for the CD drive in this machine - FreeBSD
> is the only os that has problems reading it after booting)

However, I was able to boot the same image from a memory stick, and the
keyboard is working, so I was able to manually mount root:
cd9660:/dev/da0
and after that the image was working.
Now there is dmesg output (normal) on the FreeBSD page for my
PowerMac G5:
http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g5_freebsd

Verbose dmesg coming!
-- 
Torfinn