This morning when I booted it up I got an ominous sound: three beeps. This apparently means bad RAM, so I started to think maybe the problem is my hardware. However after opening it up, vacuuming it out and re-seating the RAM , it seems OK at least according to apple's hardware test.
Meanwhile I also picked up an iBook G4: trying to load 9 on that leads to a very similar problem; it runs the install OK but doesn't boot the installed kernel. This time it doesn't enter a loop trying to load ddb, just hangs after the 4x memory region lines.
However, I had more success with 10-rc1. The iBook installs and boots into the system. Progress! Also the mini has just installed the rc version, and I booted into that too.
Now I'd like to work out how to get some extra software installed, so learning about pkgsrc...
Thanks, Alex On 11/11/23 14:42, Valery Ushakov wrote:
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 02:05:22 +1300, Alex King wrote:production kernel it panics. ofwboot prints some messages, then the kernel boots and prints a couple of maybe normal lines about memory regions, then comes a "trap" in ISI... Stuff scrolls past pretty quick, I get a bunch of "Faulted in DDB, continuing", and then stuff about tracebacks and skipping crash dump on recursive panic scrolls repeatedly.I don't think I tried 9 series, my shell mini still runs 8 and my test mini runs 10, but I don't think 9 had any major problems. As a random thought - try using ofwboot.elf instead of ofwboot.xcf - some memory mapping numerology might be at play here (different kernel size, compressed, etc - PRs 44895, 49907). -uwe