PowerPC installer

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 01/22/11 21:16, Gary wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Your image doesn't boot on my G5. It boots the kernel OK but hangs on
> trying to work with acd0 -- is that the optical drive?

That is the optical drive. There's a problem we've had historically with 
some Apple ATA controllers where ATAPI DMA does not work reliably. Could 
you try entering the following at the loader prompt?

set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0

If that makes it boot, I'll add your controller to the black list.
-Nathan