Problems booting head on G4 Powerbook

Michael Tuexen tuexen at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 29 22:38:58 UTC 2018


> On 28. Aug 2018, at 21:15, Michael Tuexen <tuexen at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I did a self host build and install world of an svn revision a couple of days old.
> Now the system does not boot anymore. It reports:
>>> FreeBSD/powerpc Open Firmware boot block
>   Boot path:    /pci at f4000000/ata-6 at d/disk at 0:
>   Boot loader:  /boot/loader
>   Boot volume:    /pci at f4000000/ata-6 at d/disk at 0:3
> Consoles: Open Firmware console
> 
> FreeBSD/powerpc Open Firmware loader, Revision 0.1
> (Tue Aug 28 02:08:04 CEST 2018 tuexen at pb15)
> Memory: 1048576KB
> Booted from: /pci at f4000000/ata-6 at d/disk at 0
> 
> -
> Invalid memory access at     %SRR0:   00000000     %SRR1: 00083030
> 
> Apple PowerBook5,2 ....
> 
> Any idea what is wrong and how to fix it?
Replacing /boot/loader with the old one allowed the system to come up.
I also see the same issue on a MacMini G4. So it is not a hardware problem,
but a regression in /boot/loader...

Best regards
Michael
> 
> Best regards
> Michael
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