I got a nice G5 from work and would like to run OpenBSD macppc on it. However, when I attempt to install I get to what is described as step 4 for i386 and amd64 in the FAQ: booting hd0a:/bsd 4464500+838332 [58+204240+181750]=0x56cfd0 http://openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#Boot386
Except that line does not fully complete and the screen goes blank white. I get the same results booting from CDs from 4.9, 5.1 and a fairly recent snapshot. The Apple Service Diagnostic disk claims everything is in great shape. It is a Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8GHz with the NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra video card. I believe the original "Q37" but could be a June 2004 model, no idea how to tell for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5 Any suggestions? Did I just get a bad one? If I had a dmesg to attach I wouldn't be asking this question. :-) l8rZ, -- andrew - http://afresh1.com Life's unfair - but root password helps!
