FreeBSD-10.1-powerpc*.iso writing issues [solved]

[Benjamin Brink]

Nevermind.

Issue is a failing power supply's power capacity.

Writes fine on a different g5.. am going through install process now..

Thank you.

On 5/10/15 3:49 PM, Benjamin Brink via freebsd-ppc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone have issues with burning the 10.1 powerpc CD releases? Or maybe
> is there another boot sequence to use? This is for a mac G5
>
> I verified the md5 for each iso, and can mount each iso by double
> clicking on its icon.
>
> I've used 2 optic drives and 11 CDRs trying various burn methods: disk
> utility, hdiutil, dd, creating a dmg from iso first etc
> and both iso's powerpc and powerpc64
>
> Each time the burn seems too fast even though I chose the slowest 4x
> (and 16x) and the result is 0 files, the write is usually verified
> (unless I tried something crazy).
>
> Usually the write session would close almost as soon as it opened.
>
> The CD is usually bootable; but loader can't find kernel.
>
> In each case, disk utility reports CD has a capacity of 3.2MB and 647Mb
> used (700MB physical capacity) --slightly different numbers for powerpc
>
> Booting CD gives a "kernel not found" error.
>
> OK ls /
> /
>    10_1_RELEASE_POWERPC64_CD
>   10_1_RELEASE_POWERPC64_CD
>
>    10_1_RELEASE_POWERPC64_CD
>   10_1_RELEASE_POWERPC64_CD
>
>    10_1_RELEASE_POWERPC64_CD
>   10_1_RELEASE_POWERPC64_CD
>
> OK _
>
> boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0
> returns with something about ootoader not found
>
> boot cd:,/boot/loader cd:0
> can't find ..
>
> boot cd:,/boot/loader cd:3
> can't find ..
>
> ls /boot
> no such file or directory
>
>
>
>
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