recent problems with PowerMac G5 64 bit USB

[Tom Pusateri]

Thanks for the detailed instructions.

I’m still getting USB timeouts even after setting kern.smp.disabled=1 and so no keyboard after boot -sv



> On Dec 9, 2018, at 5:00 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
> 
> On 12/9/18 4:46 PM, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>>> On 9. Dec 2018, at 22:26, Tom Pusateri <pusateri at bangj.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I dusted off a PowerMac dual CPU G5 the other day ...
> 
> I have one of those running well.
> 
> If you drop in on the irc chan I can walk you through the oddities and
> secret magic step by step. Even then you may have some weird issues but
> I have 12.0RC3 running fine and know what you will hit.
> 
> You can read all aboit it if you like :
> 
>    https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233579
> 
> However really all you need to do is hold down the 'C' key on your
> keyboard and the machine should boot to the dvd. When you see the loader
> start to do something on the screen wait for the countdown message. You
> will see the thing count down from 10 ... 9.... 8.... 7... and it isn't
> an explosive device.  Just hit some letter on the keyboard and you
> should see a prompt.
> 
> Type in :
> 
>  set kern.smp.disabled=1
> 
>  set debug.verbose_sysinit=1
> 
> You don't really need that second one but verbose never hurt anyone. Much.
> 
> Then type 'boot -sv' and hit enter for a verbose single user mode boot
> process.
> 
> That should get you a running live shell from the dvd and you will be
> asked for what shell you want to run. Just hit enter. You will get a
> prompt.
> 
> If all that runs then you can type 'exit' and hit enter and then the
> rest of the whole installer process will begin. It is fairly trivial
> and be sure to just use the whole disk guided UFS made easy way of
> things.
> 
> Dennis Clarke
> 
> 
> ps: you don't need the 'boot -sv' either. Just 'boot' works too but
>    doesn't everyone like to see a shell prompt from install media?
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