Installer problems with 11.0-RC3

[Roger Leigh]

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