Re: Panic while installing OBSD PowerPC 2.8, 2.9

[Grant Bayley <gbayley@ausmac.net>]

I've only ever seen a panic trap at that point on both a G3/400/Blue and a
G4/400 when there was a SCSI card installed, even if it was a "stock"
Apple-supplied one.

SCSI card out, problem stopped.

Grant

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Nightclaw wrote:

> It seems there is an issue with newer G4's where an install will panic about
> ten seconds into the install.
>
> Hardware platform:
> -Power Macintosh G4 (Open Firmware v3.1.1)
> -Standard hardware (no third-party equipment/peripherals)
>
> Failure sequence:
> -Start system and go into Open Firmware
> -"boot enet:,ofwboot cd:0,/2.9/powerpc/bsd.rd"
> -install panics as follows:
>    "vendor "Texas Instruments", unknown product 0x8000 (class serial bus,
>     subclass Firewire, rev 0.04) at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured
>     "CMD Technology PCI0646" rev 0x07 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 not
> configured
>     panic: trap type 200 at 1cc018 lr 1cbf44
>
>     Stopped at       0x1b9f7c:      tw 0, r2, r2,
>     Run at least 'trace' and 'ps' and include the output when reporting
>     this panic
>
>     ddb>
> -System is completely hung at this point - cannot traceback or perform any
>  other functions except reset switch.