FreeBSD 10 turn off by loading Boot-Kernel

[Justin Hibbits]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Dragan Stojkovic <chdrsto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Community
>
> I've the issue that I'm not able to boot kernel (even start installation /
> setup tools) on my PowerBook G4 (15"@1.6GHz).
> After starting from CD the kernel starts loading after 5 seconds, than it
> just turns off the Computer.
> All I can see is:
> ....
> Consoles: Open Firmware console
> FreeBSD/powerpc Open Firmware loader, Revision 0.1
> (root at snap.freebsd.org, Fri Jan 17 11:44 22 UTC 2014)
> Memory: 2097152KB
> Booted from: /pci at f4000000/ata-6 at d/disk at 1
>
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x93e7fc+0x71260 syms=[0x4+0x80850+0x4+0xd864a]
>
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
>
> OK
> ....
> Once I enter boot and hit Enter i can see that the Kernel is loading and
> then it just turns off the Computer.
>
> Has somebody experienced similar issue? And if so, how can I get FreeBSD
> installed?
>
> Thanks
> Regards

Hi,

This is a known issue that I fixed back in January, r260872.
Unfortunately that wasn't in time for the 10-RELEASE, but a recent
10-STABLE or 11-CURRENT snapshot will work.

- Justin