trying to install FreeBSD 10.0 CD in a PowerPC G5

Anders Jensen-Waud anders at jensenwaud.com
Mon Feb 2 23:21:33 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Joseph Kakisina <josephkakisina at icloud.com>
wrote:

> Dear sir,
>
> I’ve purchased the FreeBSD 10.0 insulation CD’s and want to install
> FreeBSD on my ‘old’ PowerPC G5.
> After starting up with cmd-option O-F I typed the command
>
> boot cd:,\ppc\chrp\loader cd:0
>
> and hit return
> the system appends load-size=0 adler32=1 so I see on the screen
>
> boot cd:,\ppc\chrp\loader cd:0 load-size=0 adler32=1
>
> I got the error message LOAD-SIZE is too small
>
> What should I do to fix this error ?


Nice machine for running FreeBSD!

I suggest that you post this problem to the PowerPC mailing list -- see
https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc

Cheers

Anders

>
> Kind regards,
> Joseph Kakisina
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