Error with Install CD on PPC iMac G3

[Garrett Zuhoski]

Excellent. booted 10.3 with no issue.
As I stated before, I'm fairly new to BSD, am I right to assume that since
there's a ports system, the only thing "old" about an older version is the
kernel? Many linux distros are not able to get newer packages with an old
version.. just wondering if it's the same issue or not. As I said I chose
freebsd because of it's continued support of PPC

Thanks for your help!

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl at sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Garrett Zuhoski <geezuh at gmail.com> writes:
> > I have an old iMac that I was wanting to play around with, and since
> linux
> > has been dropping PPC support left and right, I figured this would be a
> > good opportunity to play around with other Unices like FreeBSD.
> > Upon boot, the bootloader comes up and loads the kernel, then quickly
> > scrolling text followed by a reboot of the machine.
> > Here is a photo of the error: http://i.imgur.com/ZgBBLjG.png
>
> Which FreeBSD version is that?
>
> My own experience on a couple different PPC-era Macs is that 10.3
> works fine, but 11 and CURRENT hang somewhere near where you're showing.
> Might or might not be the same issue.  The archives of this list contain
> several different threads about boot problems on Apple PPC hardware
> over the last year or so.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>