Hi Mathias, On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 22:45 +0100, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote: > I tested the installation on this machine with image 2024-12-24 and > after the partitioning, in another console, mount shows the hfs > partition, what is not the case with image 2025-03-16.
You're right. I forgot to manually inject the udebs for HFS support this time. I unfortunately have to do that every time since Debian thinks that the APSL license is non-free meaning that hfsprogs had to be moved to the non-free section which is not supported in Debian Ports. I have reached out to Apple's legal department trying to convince them to switch the license of their HFS code from ASPL to a license that is DFSG- compatible but I never succeeded. I also asked for help on this list. I know that fixing HFS support in debian-installer once and for all seems like a trivial problem but by all means, it's not trivial at all. However, I will remember injecting the udebs manually next time I build images. > To continue testing 32-bit machines, I tried to install the latest image > on PowerBook G4 and after have chosen the default install, it is stuck at: > > Quiescing Open Firmware ... > Booting Linux via __start() @ 0x20c00000 > > I obtain exactly the same result with QEMU that I tried to install with > the followind command line (not sure of it, but it is hard to find a > procedure for recent Debian versions, for example): > > /usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99,via=pmu -m 1024 > -hda debian-12.qcow2 -cdrom > /home/mathias/Téléchargements/20250316-debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso > > > Still on this PowerBook G4, the image 2024-12-24 stops at the same place. Yesterday I had the idea to modify the problematic patch [1] so that it applies on ppc64el only but not on powerpc and ppc64. This should at least fix the console problem. Adrian > [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/patches/bugfix/powerpc/fbdev-offb-Update-expected-device-name.patch?ref_type=heads -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
