On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:58:47AM +0000, Kusalananda Andreas K?h?ri wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a dual core PowerMac G5, the type with three USB ports, so it's > the early 2005 version of that model. > > I managed to boot bsd.rd from CDROM and to install the operating > system on its SATA disk. > > Rebooting, I'm able to start loading the SMP kernel but I get a panic > from the aoa driver. Disabling this, I get as far as the point when > it's supposed to mount the file systems, which it obviously fails as > SATA isn't supported.
The SMP kernel does not work on G5, for now use the GENERIC (bsd) kernel. > > Now I wonder, how come I was able to install the operating system on > the SATA disk when booting bsd.rd off the CDROM? Is there any way to > work with the system by getting it to not use SATA somehow? This quite surprised me as well. When I have had the time to try recently, the disk on SATA was never found (I have a machine running of a USB memory stick). > > I'm currently using the November 3 snapshot of macppc from > ftp.mirrorservice.org. > > Sorry for the lack of dmesg and panic trace output. > I'm going to try setting up a telnet connection to the machine tonight > or sometime soon to capture this. I am currently in Portugal at a hackathon and will be back sometime next week and will attempt to look at this then, please ping me if you have not heard anything from me by next Wednesday. > > Kind regards, > Kusalananda > > -- > Dharmachari Kusalananda (Andreas Kdhdri) > Somewhere in the general Cambridge area, UK. > Dale Rahn [email protected]
