Adrian: Thanks for your reply. According to that article in my previous email, those instructions should still work with kernel 6.1 or earlier. Are there any offline installer ISOs at https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ which contain kernel <=6.1? It appears they're all 'net installs, which will download the latest kernel from the repository. Correct me if I'm wrong.
P.S. Does anyone know why this article would claim kernel >6.1 won't work? On Sat, 2025-08-23 at 12:55 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 20:12 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > > Can anyone provide any guidance on how to install Debian onto an > > OldWorld ROM Macintosh? > > > > I followed this gentleman's guide to the tee (before it was changed > > to > > read "OUTDATED") on my PDQ, but as soon as I selected "Linux" from > > the > > BootX prompt, I received a black screen, and was unable to progress > > further. > > > > https://distrosprojects.blogspot.com/2023/09/modern-debian-on-1998-powerbook-g3.html > > > > I have struggled to find solid evidence to back the partitioning > > choices, and nothing to explain my actual issue. > > Last time I tried a recent kernel on an OldWorld PowerMac, the kernel > crashed > quite early and I didn't get to see any usable boot messages. There > was a > discussion on the topic on this list, see [1]. > > While I have an OldWorld PowerBook somewhere in my storage, I don't > really have > the time to look into this issue now so that someone else interested > needs to > do that. > > It's not unusual for the kernel not to work on hardware on which it > hasn't been > tested on for a long time. > > Adrian > > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/07/msg00050.html
