Re: rescue of install / booting from USB

2019-01-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/3/19 00:53, Riccardo Mottola wrote: On 1/1/19 7:48 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: now however I perhaps need some magic to fix things. I am able to get into the "ash" and mount my hard disk, so I have on /cdrom my local key stuff and in /mnt my target. I an also mount the small HFS partition

Re: rescue of install / booting from USB

2019-01-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 07:10:17PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: [ ... ] Fine, why not try just booting a debian 8 image and see? I could tryi fixing yaboot (e.g. by installing the one just booted) or by installing debian 8 and then upgrading later. I got the netinst iso on a USB stick

Re: rescue of install / booting from USB

2019-01-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
On 1/1/19 7:48 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: To boot it, enter in Open-Firmware and "boot usb". I get into the First Stage GNU/Linux bootstrap and type "l" for GNU/Linux. I get: Decrementer exception at  %SRR0: 001001d8  %%SRR1: 10003030 First, what gives `devalias usb` on your machine? no

Re: Help requested for htslib build failure on ppc64el

2019-01-02 Thread Michael Crusoe
În mie., 2 ian. 2019 la 15:27, Gustavo Romero a scris: > Hello Michael, > > On 12/31/2018 02:50 PM, Michael Crusoe wrote: > > În lun., 31 dec. 2018 la 06:42, Gustavo Romero < > grom...@linux.vnet.ibm.com > a scris: > > diff --git a/sam.c b/sam.c > >

Re: Problems with hfsprogs on G5 Power Macs

2019-01-02 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 9:54 PM Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Dear all, > > I experienced some major problems with hfsprogs on G5 Power Macs. I vaguely recall also some data corruption when playing with HFS back then: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2016/04/msg00103.html ISO 9660 works

Re: Changing bootstrap method for NewWorld Power Macs

2019-01-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Mark, On 1/2/19 16:27, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 31/12/2018 13:15, Frank Scheiner wrote: Sorry to hear that, though I think you need to provide additional details at this time: What do you mean with "Debian images"? Because if you speak of the installer ISOs, my changes won't change

Re: Help requested for htslib build failure on ppc64el

2019-01-02 Thread Gustavo Romero
On 01/02/2019 11:27 AM, Gustavo Romero wrote: Hello Michael, On 12/31/2018 02:50 PM, Michael Crusoe wrote: În lun., 31 dec. 2018 la 06:42, Gustavo Romero mailto:grom...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>> a scris:     diff --git a/sam.c b/sam.c     index aa94776..23233a0 100644     --- a/sam.c     +++

Re: Changing bootstrap method for NewWorld Power Macs

2019-01-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 31/12/2018 13:15, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On 12/31/18 00:49, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> On 30/12/2018 21:01, Frank Scheiner wrote: >>> Open Firmware (IEEE 1275) can actually also boot from FAT file systems and >>> this is >>> also supported on NewWorld Power Macs. >> >>

Re: Help requested for htslib build failure on ppc64el

2019-01-02 Thread Gustavo Romero
Hello Michael, On 12/31/2018 02:50 PM, Michael Crusoe wrote: În lun., 31 dec. 2018 la 06:42, Gustavo Romero mailto:grom...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>> a scris: diff --git a/sam.c b/sam.c index aa94776..23233a0 100644 --- a/sam.c +++ b/sam.c @@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ int