Hi all, hi Adrian, downloaded the image and burnt on DVD. Now the iMac starts from DVD but hangs with: smp_core99_probe smp_core99_bringup_done the ventilator is up high but nothing else happens.
I have ATI Radeon X600 (Rev 380) 3E50 (PCIE) Any hints? Claudia Am Dienstag, 23. Januar 2024, 14:58:08 CET schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > Hi Claudia, > > On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 14:54 +0100, Claudia Neumann wrote: > > I have an iMac G5, PowerMac 12,1 PPC970FX, Platform: PowerMac 12,1 > > MacRISC4 > > Power Macinstosh, Memory 1GB+384MB. > > > > I had installed Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS and it was running fine. Now I need > > newer libc and so on. So I wanted to install Debian 12 or even Debian 13 > > on this iMac. > This is a computer running in big-endian mode, so you need to install a > big-endian PowerPC distribution. > > > Is that possible? I tried > > debian-12.4.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso > > but the iMac does not start from the DVD. > > The ppc64el Debian port targets little-endian PowerPC, so it's not > compatible with your Mac. > > > What can I do? > > Please use this installation image: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-12-14/debian-12.0. > > 0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > : :' : Debian Developer > > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
