On 3/18/22 11:59 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > I have created the first set of installation images in 2022, these are > available at the usual location in [1]. > > The ISO image for sparc64 has been verified to work correctly, I don't > know about the other architectures, however. > > I have also created the first images which include non-free firmware packages > but these are completely untested and firmware installation might not work > correctly as DEP-11 information is not available on the Debian Ports mirrors. > > The non-free images can be found here [2]. > > Adrian > >> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/ >> [2] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ >
Hello, My installation attempt using CD [2] above on a PowerBook G3 Pismo (500 MHz; 2 GiB memory) failed. 1) I started with a blank 120 GB disk. I partitioned the disk to include partitions (after the Apple drive partitions) for Apple_Bootstrap (/dev/sda6; 10 MiB), Mac OS 9 (/dev/sda7; 1 GiB), Mac OS X (/dev/sda8; 7 GiB), Debian rootfs (/dev/sda9; 16 GiB), and swap (/dev/sda10; 2 GiB) -- I left the rest of the disk un-partitioned. 2) The installation CD booted and GRUB worked. I chose a default installation with manual partitioning, using the partitions I set up in step 1. Everything worked as expected until GRUB installation, which failed. The error message was that GRUB failed to install on /dev/sda9 (the rootfs, not the Apple_Bootstrap, partition). 3) In step 2, I thought it might have failed because my Apple_Bootstrap partition could have been too small, so I tried the installation again, choosing a default installation using the entire disk with only the default partitions. The resulting sizes were approximately as follows: Apple_Bootstrap (/dev/sda2; 256 MB); Debian rootfs (/dev/sda3; ~115 GiB); and swap (/dev/sda4; ~768 MB). So this Apple_Bootstrap was certainly larger than the one I used in step 1, and I was optimistic that everything would work. But GRUB installation failed again, with the error message that "grub-install /dev/sda3" failed. Even if this had worked, it appears that I would have lost the Apple drivers needed to boot Mac OS 9. 4) Booting into rescue mode on the installation CD, I was also not able to install GRUB on the Apple_Bootstrap partition directly (e.g. after step 3, I tried "grub-install /dev/sda2"). The error message was that the partition was not a partition of type PReP. Please let me know of anything else that I could try. thanks -Stan Johnson
