On 31 May 2007, at 18:07, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

> Yea I'm running unbuntu on my Dual G5 1.8 PowerMac until this bug is
> fixed ... God help me.  =/

hmm, ok, i guess i get to keep digging.


>
> ~BAS
>
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:19 +0100, Mark Blackman wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've attempted to use the macppc ISO images for each of the following
>> releases.
>>
>> * 2.1
>> * 3.0
>> * 3.1
>> * 4.0-BETA
>>
>> and they all fail to load the NetBSD kernel from the CD,
>> failing with decrementer errors or invalid memory access. This
>> Powerbook is
>> a Powerbook3,5 1GHz G4 system.
>>
>> The nearest thing to my difficulty that I've found on the mailing
>> lists is this post..
>>
>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2006/03/25/0001.html
>>
>> I'm just asking the list if anyone has ever gotten a Powerbook G4 to
>> boot from an official NetBSD ISO without modifications. I don't
>> yet have a NetBSD installation anywhere that I can use to
>> try the patch above.
>>
>> In any case, I'm grateful for any advice that can be offered.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark Blackman
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