9.0-RC1 crash on G5 (late 2005)

[Justin Hibbits]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:05:01 -0400
Chris Carr <carrch at mac.com> wrote:

> Does the G5 boot up and run Mac OS X without locking up?
> I've seen intermittent freezes/hangs caused by hardware failures  
> (particularly the graphics card.)
> 
> On Oct 29, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:28:13 -0500
> > Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/27/11 20:26, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> >>> I don't know the conditions of the crash, but sometime after
> >>> booting, can happen right away, or later, my G5 just stops.  No
> >>> kernel panic, no messages, it just stops.  The red light in the
> >>> case comes on, and it just sits there.
> >>>
> >>> Hardware:  Late 2005 model G5, Dual-core 2.0GHz, 4GB RAM.
> >>>
> >>> Anything else I can provide, just ask.  Can't provide a coredump,
> >>> dmesg, or anything else like that, though (machine just dies).
> >>>
> >>
> >> Is this a 32 or a 64-bit kernel? I have the same model, with a
> >> 64-bit kernel, as my primary desktop, and have never seen anything
> >> like this.
> >> -Nathan
> >
> > Hey Nathan,
> >
> > I just tried -BETA1, 64-bit, on the machine, and it locked the same
> > way.  Anything that I can do?
> >
> > - Justin
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Yes, it does.  OS X was running just fine, I just wanted to replace it
with FreeBSD.  I just checked which LED gets lit, and the silkscreen
shows: LED806 CHECKSTOP, if that helps at all.

- Justin