Installer problems with 11.0-RC3

[Justin Hibbits]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> wrote:
> On 18/09/2016 09:04, Roger Leigh wrote:
>>
>> On 17/09/2016 23:46, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:39:41 +0000
>>> Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Up until now, my G4 Mac Mini has been running 10.3-RELEASE.  Today, I
>>>> tried the 11.0-RC3 installer.  Two issues noted:
>>>>
>>>> 1) The colours in the installer are different than the PC installer.
>>>> The background is a mid brown with yellow text.  An issue with the
>>>> console framebuffer?
>>>>
>>>> 2) It won't boot after the installer finished.
>>>>      Invalid memory access at %SRR0: 018011f0    %SRR1: 00003030
>>>
>>>
>>> I just fixed the second issue, which should be going into the next ISO
>>> (RC4? Final? Not sure at this point), but the initial commit was to
>>> head at r305894, and finally merged to 11.0 (by way of stable/11) in
>>> r305904 if you're curious.
>>
>>
>> Super, thanks.  I'll retry this with the next ISO release.
>
>
> I got the time to retry with the 11.0-RELEASE ISO, and the above problem is
> fixed, but unfortunately then hit a problem I'd previously seen and posted
> on the list when testing 11.0-STABLE in mid-September.  The kernel loads and
> boots correctly, but it hangs at this point:
>
>   gem0: 10kB RX addr......
>   gem0: Ethernet address .......
>   cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on nexus0
>
> At this point it just sits there with the CPU fan going full tilt.  I'm not
> sure what exactly the problem is here because I have no means to debug it
> that I'm aware of at that point during the boot.  Happy to investigate
> further if anyone could provide any hints about what I could do to assist.
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger

Hi Roger,

Unfortunately, I've run into this on my PowerBook G4 since February,
with no clear idea of what's going on.  Since nobody else had reported
a problem I thought it was just me, so didn't put much effort into it.
That said, it *should* boot the installed kernel if you start the
loader from the CD (just 'unload; set currdev=hd:3; boot'), and it
boots to the hard drive fine then (that's what I've been doing since
BSDCan).  I intend to take a closer look at it at MeetBSD with some
other folks who might have some insight into at least how to debug it.

- Justin