11.1 release CD image panics very early during boot on ppc.

[Justin Hibbits]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 2:10 AM, Jukka Ukkonen <jau789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had a bit of an accident with my old PowerMac G4 which had been
> running FreeBSD-10.4. To fix the mess I had to boot the system from
> a CD image. So, I decided to try 11.1 while at it. To my astonishment
> and disappointment the 11.1 images (both CD and DVD) paniced
> very early on during the boot. The messages flashed past the screen
> so quickly that I cannot be really sure about anything, but it kind of
> seemed like the issue might be yet another installment of the SPRG
> related problems (in ofw_machdep.c) which have been troubling
> ppc64 systems before.
> The 10.4 CD image boots just fine on ppc.
>
> --jau

Can you try booting with 'boot -v' and also setting at the loader
debug.debugger_on_panic=1?  I think it's set to 0 on release ISOs, so
this should let you get a screen capture.

- Justin