FreeBSD 11 on PowerBook G4

[Justin Hibbits]

Hi Tammy,

That is the snapshot I installed. I didn't try on my TiBook, I installed it
on a 1.67GHz PowerBook.  Try setting at the loader kern.vty=sc, to use
syscons instead of it.

-Justin

On Nov 10, 2016 11:24, "Tamiji Homma" <tamiji at me.com> wrote:

> Hi Justin,
>
> I’ve tried following FreeBSD 12 snapshots from ftp.freebsd.org
>
> FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-powerpc-20161021-r307747-disc1.iso
> FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-powerpc-20161031-r308137-disc1.iso
>
> Both installed OK but both kernels didn’t boot.  After kernel started,
> screen went blank and nothing.
>
> It is different from fatal kernel trap on FreeBSD 11-RELEASE.
>
> Is your Oct 31st snap same as what I tried or something different, you
> built from the source code?
>
> sha256:
>
> 01641184c3fc4d434cb475d754c62f2bc2f8b92ffefaf0ffba907bee904b8aa5
> FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-powerpc-20161031-r308137-disc1.iso
>
> Tammy
>
> > On Nov 8, 2016, at 6:53 PM, Justin Hibbits <jhibbits at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:34:09 -0800
> > Tamiji Homma <tamiji at me.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I’ve been running FreeBSD-ppc on PowerBook G4 1GHz/1GB DRAM since
> >> 9.1-RC2. I upgraded to 10.2 some time back.  It works fine.
> >>
> >> I gave it a try 11.0.  Installer worked flawlessly but installed
> >> kernel crash during boot.
> >>
> >> Since it reboots spontaneously, I couldn’t write it down.  I
> >> video-captured screen and took a snapshot.
> >>
> >> Here is screenshot fatal kernel trap.
> >> http://www.pbase.com/tammyhomma/image/164488840/original
> >>
> >> Anyone seen this?
> >>
> >> I also tried Nov. 6th 11-stable snapshot. Kernel crashes at the same
> >> point.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> PS: I installed 10.3 for now and it works.
> >>
> >> Tammy
> >
> > Hi Tammy,
> >
> > Unfortunately, you're in good company with that panic.  I've seen that
> > since at least February on my PowerBook, but haven't made the time to
> > track it down (11-CURRENT from mid-October 2015 worked fine).  On the
> > bright side, though, 12-CURRENT as of October 31 works fine on my
> > PowerBook.  I still don't have the time to bisect and track down the
> > cause of the problem or the fix, but if you feel like bisecting and
> > trying to find the snapshot that fixes the problem, that could help
> > narrow down where it got fixed, and a fix could be backported to
> > 11-STABLE.
> >
> > - Justin
>
>