Hi! On 3/28/22 22:58, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Works like a charm!
Good to hear! > I simply used the default install option from the GRUB menu that > is provided by the installer and then followed the prompts. Not sure > what you changed but this time everything just flows naturally. Should > you wish I can redo the install and capture the syslog/partman files. Nah, that's fine. If you're brave enough you can help verify that the G5 will still boot with the "boot-device" variable in NVRAM set to NULL: # nvram --update-config boot-device="" > There are problems, of course, but they are with Debian as a whole > and not at all specific to the ppc64 installer or the ppc64 port. I > will move onwards to sparc64 and give that a whirl on some old sparc64 > netra unit. Have fun! FWIW, I also verified that the installation image on ia64 works fine. > Also, merely a sidenote, I did the following to achieve perfection: > > 1) boot the installer image > 2) follow some prompts to get to a shell > 3) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=1048576 > 4) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 count=1048576 > 5) power off the machine cold > 6) wait 60 seconds and then boot the installer > > That resulted in the partition stage simply flowing naturally along > with blank disks for sda and sdb. Hmm, I have a hard time believing that it's related to that. 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
