On 12/29/20 2:09 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > If I install one of those images, yaboot gets installed and gets loaded at > reboot, > although boot finally fails with "unknown or corrupt filesystem" when loading > the > kernel. I used standard partitioning.
Yaboot requires the /boot partition to be ext2 or ext3, it won't work with the ext4 in Debian unstable. This is one of the many reasons why I prefer GRUB. > Maybe I am bitten by the fact that the installer partitioned ext4 root, but > yaboot > doesn't know about it. I will retry with a separate /boot Use a separate /boot partition with ext2 or ext3. > I did a very minimal install, only system utilities, since there are no "sid" > repositories > and the installer will try to find sid even if a port mirror is given as URL. Yes, that was still broken in the old installation images and was fixed in later images. > Still, I think it is "proof enough", yaboot gets loaded - the same thing > should happen to GRUB. Then try installing GRUB manually as explained here: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB_on_Open_Firmware_(PowerPC) > Also, this allowed me another important test: if "alt" is hit at boot, one > hard disk is shown with > a Penguin - this means that OpenFirmware sees the partition as bootable. > > Does your iBook G4 run GRUB and does the same? I cannot access mine right now > due to lockdown restrictions. I cannot currently perform any installations on the iBook G4 due to the issues with glibc and partman. 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
