On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:11:30 +0000 (UTC) [email protected] wrote:
> As fate would have it, it was precisely today that I got my hands > on an iMac G5 17" iSight (model A1144), which happens to have a > SATA hard drive. > > I tried booting 7.6 GENERIC and it gets stuck waiting for the pciide > wd0 drive, happy to provide more information if needed. I have a Power Mac G5 (PowerMac7,3 A1047 1969C) which sometimes gets stuck for about a minute while attaching pciide. It freezes while scrolling the screen (I can see a half-drawn line of text), then unfreezes. This freeze did not happen during my last few boots. The same G5 has a different, less frequent problem where bsd permanently freezes when radeondrm tries to set the display resolution (at boot, shortly before init(8) would run). My work around is to boot a different kernel, and allow it to relink /bsd. After /bsd is relinked, it doesn't repeat the permanent freeze. If RAMDISK (the install kernel) booted, but GENERIC did not, then relinking GENERIC might help. You would boot RAMDISK again (at "boot>" type "bsd.rd" or "boot bsd.rd"), then do an upgrade to reinstall the base76.tgz set. If the relinked GENERIC still freezes, you might try boot_config(8) to "disable radeondrm" or "disable pciide". (With no pciide, you would see the kernel failing to find a root disk.) --gkoehler
