PowerPC installer

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

Hi,

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:05:19 -0600
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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

I just re-tested all my CD's (with FreeBSD images on them) on my
PowerMac G5[1]. With the setting above, all of them work (ie they boot
to the main menu, and I can use the menu to start a shell). Nice!

Therer are dmesg outputs on the FreeBSD page[2], in case you need them
to figure out what to blacklist.

1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g5
2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g5_freebsd
-- 
Torfinn