Hi Stan! On 4/23/20 9:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fffffff6 at %SRR0: ff80aac50 %SPR1: 000b030 method >>>>> <draw-rectangle> not found; ihandle=ff9d2740 phandle=ff86a4c8 >>> ... >> >> To me, the "draw-rectangle" message suggests that Open Firmware on the >> Lombard is too old for whatever Forth commands GRUB is trying to use. >> >> I haven't used GRUB in quite a while except on PCs. Doesn't GRUB draw a >> nice rectangle around the edge of the screen as part of its process to >> present the boot menu? If yes, then this could be the cause of the OF >> problem on the Lombard, if Lombard OF doesn't have a "draw-rectangle" >> command. >> >> Is there a way to run GRUB in "text-only" mode, or equivalent? >> ... > Open Firmware is 4.1.0f5 on the Pismo, compared to 1.0f1 on the Lombard. > So perhaps not surprising, the Debian SID CD boots on the Pismo. And > sure enough, it does draw a rectangle around the options (but's it's an > ASCII art rectangle, so I'm not sure it's important, but I think it > tried to open a graphical screen first).
Yes, I agree, the OpenFirmware version on the Lombard is probably simply too old. I don't think GRUB has a pure text-only mode, so I think you cannot disable the calls to draw-rectangle. However, I know that Forth itself is an extensible language, so in theory, you could probably pre-load a little Forth program which adds the missing draw-rectangle command. > I posted the message above to the Debian PPC list but I haven't seen any > responses yet. I missed that particular message as there was a lot of noise in this discussion, you don't need to post every single detail. It's enough to post the interesting stuff. > I'll do more checking today on whether Debian SID installs, and I'll post a > message > to the Debian PPC list. But the NIC is detected and it appears that the > installation will succeed. Are you talking about the Lombard or the Pismo? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
