[Bug 235060] [boot] FreeBSD 12.0 Release DVD and CD will not boot on PowerMac G5 Quad

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--- Comment #23 from Francis Little <oggy at farscape.co.uk> ---
(In reply to consuli074 from comment #22)

Hi so I have a G5 Quad and today I downloaded the AMD64 iamge and yes, double
clicking it, it will not open in the finder, but it shouldn't be opened in the
finder.

It should be burned with Disk Utility to create a working bootable CD or DVD.

So on my G5, booted in to OS 10.5.8:

Inserted a blank DVD-R.
Finder asked if I wanted to open the DVD-R in finder, I selected Ignore.
Right-Clicked the FreeBSD 12 AMD64 iso, selected Open With and Disk Utility.
Disk Utility opened, I selected the FreeBSD ISO now listed in the left of Disk
Utility, then selcted Burn at the top.
The ISO was written to the DVD.

Being this is the AMD64 ISO, I removed the DVD-R from the Mac and put it in a
Dell, Intel core i3, and it booted to the FreeBSD installer.

The same process also worked for a FreeBSD powerpc64 iso that I installed with
the other day.

Can I suggest you double check how you are trying to write ISO images to DVD /
CD's?

Regards

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