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From: Keve Nagy <wforms@safe-mail.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FreeBSD i386 6.2-RELEASE does not load on core2duo iMac
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>Number:         119295
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       [boot] FreeBSD i386 6.2-RELEASE does not load on core2duo iMac
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 03 08:30:01 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jan 28 07:56:16 UTC 2008
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jan 28 07:56:16 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Keve Nagy
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
N/A
>Environment:
New, Intel based Macintosh, the 24-inch aluminum iMac with a 2.4 GHz intel core-2-duo processor, 320 GB SATA disk and 1 GB memory.
>Description:
This is just to report that I was unable to install FreeBSD on my new
iMac because the i386 install CD of FreeBSD 6.2R hangs before getting to
the sysinstall menu. The hardware in question is one of the latest intel
based Macintosh, the 24-inch aluminum iMac with a 2.4 GHz intel core-2-duo
processor, 320 GB SATA disk and 1 GB memory.

The CD boots up, beastie-menu shows up, the system starts loading but it
never gets to the sysinstall menu.

Due to the nature of the problem I was unable to grab a dmesg output.

The place where the system stops loading and hangs is where the detected
harddisks and optical drives are printed out in the dmesg messages.

Selecting "safe-mode" or "acpi off" in the beastie-menu does not change
this issue.

I tried "boot -v" but it didn't show me anything around the hang-up which
would make identifying the source of the problem any simpler.

It would be nice to know how this CD works on the latest core-2-duo based
Mac Pro, Mac mini or MacBook models.  It surely worked for me on an earlier
core-duo based MacBook Pro (not core-2-duo, just core-duo).

>How-To-Repeat:
Try to boot the FreeBSD/i386 6.2-RELEASE CD in one of the latest intel
based aluminum iMacs. The ones with a core-2-duo processor.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: wforms@Safe-mail.net
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/119295: FreeBSD i386 6.2-RELEASE does not load on core2duo iMac
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:55:07 +0100

 As FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE came out a couple of days ago I gave that one a
 try too, and I am happy to report that the 6.3R install CD boots up fine
 and installation went without any problems.
 
 It seems that the problem has already been solved along the 6.2R to 6.3R
 development line most probably by adding support for some of the new
 chipsets and controllers found on these fresh intel/iMac boards.
 
 I believe we can now safely close this PR.
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 28 07:55:49 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Submitter notes that this is fixed in 6.3R. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=119295 
>Unformatted:
