On 27.05.23 04:52, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 02:14:16PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
As per `grub-install(8)`:
```
grub-install copies GRUB images into boot/grub.
```
As the call to `grub-install` is performed by `chroot` inside the root
FS of the new installation, I
Hello again,
On 26.05.23 13:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
On Fri, 2023-05-26 at 13:07 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 24.05.23 15:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
==
Installing on a FAT
/frank-scheiner-guest/grub-installer/-/commit/cfe145228adaa34aae780cbb527dce5408107083#ae6e84c2dbfeefe14b039001e1b64254dada292b_895_899
Cheers,
Frank
Hallo,
On 10.05.23 11:36, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Does your approach include a blessing tool?
Not that I know of. The grub image (a copy of GRUB's `core.elf`) in the
root of the OF bootstrap partition is configured in the OF environment
var `boot-device`. OF therefore knows what file
Hi Adrian,
On 10.05.23 10:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
[...]
If we could get Apple PowerMac machines to boot from a FAT filesystem, the
licensing
issue with hfsprogs would no longer be a headache. According to Apple's
documentation,
booting from a FAT boot partition should work [4]
You're welcome! :-)
On 24.11.22 22:22, Peter wrote:
Hi Frank,
That fixed it, thanks!
Peter
On Thu, 2022-11-24 at 00:31 +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Hi Peter,
On 24.11.22 00:18, Peter wrote:
I seem to have a problem with grub being read-only after sudo apt
update & apt upgrade on my i
Hi Peter,
On 24.11.22 00:18, Peter wrote:
I seem to have a problem with grub being read-only after sudo apt
update & apt upgrade on my iBook G4:
You need to fsck (and possibly repair) the HFS partition GRUB is located
on - use `fsck.hfs` from "hfsprogs" package (see [1] for details). When
On 26.05.22 07:50, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2022, at 9:56 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
On 5/26/22 00:46, Rick Thomas wrote:
The package libssl1.1 seems to have been removed from the powerpc/ppc64
archives.
Yes, there is a transition going on towards OpenSSL 3.0.
Hi Tony,
On 13.05.22 01:11, to...@suse.de wrote:
[...]
Overheating is common and I'm aware of the process to try to fix it
but my concern is that the machine has also become totally unstable
in Open Firmware (OF).
Have you already looked below the cover of the cooling system? Is there
any
Small update...
On 21.02.22 10:22, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 20.02.22 23:37, Stan Johnson wrote:
So there must have been a change in fwupd somewhere between version
1.7.4-1 and 1.7.5-3 that causes it to now require systemd. Please let me
know where I should report the issue.
[1] lists two
Hi Stan, Rick,
spotted this by chance.
On 20.02.22 23:37, Stan Johnson wrote:
And now:
# dpkg --list | grep -w fwupd
ii fwupd 1.7.5-3powerpcFirmware update daemon
So there must have been a change in fwupd somewhere between version
1.7.4-1 and 1.7.5-3 that causes it to now require
Congratulations, Adrian! That is a huge step forward.
Cheers,
Frank
On 14.10.21 10:03, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
Good news everyone! The hfsprogs package which has support for debian-installer
has now been accepted into unstable \o/. That means, I can finally continue
working
Hi again,
On 01.11.20 20:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I just uploaded a new upstream release, version 540.1.
Please check whether this version fixes the problem for you.
Looks like the new version indeed fixes the problem! Great! :-)
I was "lucky" and found my HFS partition "dirty"
Hi Adrian,
On 01.11.20 20:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I just uploaded a new upstream release, version 540.1.
Great!
Please check whether this version fixes the problem for you.
I will do. I just don't know, how to break my HFS partition, so
`fsck.hfs` has something to fix. But
On 23.06.20 10:58, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 23.06.20 09:56, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
[...]
A signature applied during a valid key period is still good. For those
following a key rotation scheme, no new signatures should occur after
the key expires.
I agree. I have a related issue in my
On 23.06.20 09:56, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
[...]
A signature applied during a valid key period is still good. For those
following a key rotation scheme, no new signatures should occur after
the key expires.
I agree. I have a related issue in my Thunderbird MUA. It keeps stating
that, the -
On 21.06.20 19:14, luigi burdo wrote:
[...]
This is the aros running on VirtualPC on G5 Quad
https://youtu.be/uGGMOsTqh70
Wow, nice choice of music. Reminds me of how much fun I had with Gods on
my Amiga 500 - The Bitmap Brothers were a cool team of developers and
their games were among the
On 19.04.20 10:36, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 11:47 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
You need to use the `ofpathname` from the `mac-support` branch mentioned
on [2]. You can either download it directly from [3] or `git clone
https://github.com/glaubitz/powerpc-utils.git` and do
On 19.04.20 10:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/19/20 10:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Although I'm really wondering if we just can't format and mount the
HFS partiton with partman without having to resort to the hfs bootstrap
script you created for debian-installer.
On 19.04.20 09:15, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
Le dim. 19 avr. 2020 08:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
mailto:glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>> a
écrit :
On 4/19/20 8:39 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> It might just be that we will have to increase the size of the
HFS boot
>
Hi Rick,
nice to hear from you!
On 19.04.20 00:10, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 1:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You should test with ofpathname as well.
OK, I will. Is there an updated version of ofpathname I should be using? If
so how do I get it?
Check [1]
Hi Adrian,
On 16.04.20 21:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Frank!
On 4/16/20 8:49 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils
package on different physical disks, e.g. sda1 and sdb1 and do the same with
the ofpath command
Hi Adrian,
On 16.04.20 17:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I have finally found some time to work on this issue again.
Nice!
First things first, I have reviewed the messages in this thread and compared
it with the source code and the knowledge about the hardware I have.
I have
Hi guys,
On 16.04.20 20:38, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
First, the mystery was solved by the almighty command 'ls', turns out
it's not exactly a patch:
dolbeau@powermacg5:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/ofpath*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24392 Apr 14 2019 /usr/sbin/ofpath
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root16 Jan 26 10:49
Hi Riccardo,
On 7/4/19 20:36, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Up to know, I followed you step after step.
Now that everything is prepared you can use `grub-install` to install
GRUB onto the HFS bootstrap partition (taken and adapted from [2]):
```
grub-install --macppc-directory=/boot/grub
```
On 6/20/19 22:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Frank!
On 6/20/19 9:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Combining the information from [1] and [2] for my 11,2 type G5 the
following OF paths are returned:
```
root@powermac-g5:~# ofpathname /dev/sda2
/ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/scsi@0/sd
On 7/2/19 16:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 7/2/19 4:32 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
There's no UDEB for hfsprogs which would allow handling HFS from the
installer environment so we need to resort to using the tools from the
hfsprogs DEB package from inside the target root FS during
Hi Riccardo,
sorry for being so late, but I was occupied by other things the last weeks.
On 6/26/19 20:22, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 6/25/19 11:50 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
in the meanwhile I did not stand still, but I tried:
1) boot with rescue CD
Hi Adrian,
On 6/20/19 15:47, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
In order to collect data for fixing the limitations we have with
grub-ofpathname,
I have done some initial testing on our POWER8 buildd by comparing the output
of Yaboot's ofpath [1], ofpathname from powerpc-utils [2] and
Hi Dennis,
during the package upgrade of GRUB, `grub-install` uses `ofpathname` to
determine the OF path of the device that holds the GRUB files needed for
booting and uses `nvsetenv` to write it to the NVRAM. Unfortunately
`ofpathname` doesn't return a working OF path on Power Macs. To fix that
On 5/9/19 08:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 5/8/19 7:20 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Not for the 11,2 type G5s. AFAIK there never was an adapter available
that would allow access to the - existing - serial console port(s).
You can always plug in a USB-RS232 converter and pass "co
On 5/8/19 13:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 5/8/19 1:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Sounds too much like work for an annoying little thing.
I will connect a KVM to it perhaps and that may solve it without
knowing why it happens. As for a serial port or serial console,
in my dreams. There
On 5/5/19 12:08, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On May 5, 2019, at 12:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
What do you recommend instead? The original file was 365KB. The compressed
file was 48KB.
Remove the irrelevant parts. But 365 kB isn’t too much anyway.
What's the (exact) size limit then
On 5/5/19 16:35, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
On 05/05/2019 15:02, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 5/5/19 14:47, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
On 05/05/2019 13:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I think the bootinfo.txt is for IBM CHRP machines while the BootX is for Macs.
Ah no, that's not correct
On 5/5/19 14:47, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
On 05/05/2019 13:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On May 5, 2019, at 2:16 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
wrote:
Presumably for the test ISO image you were manually copying
/System/Library/CoreServices/* into the image yourself? Hopefully with the above
Hi Rick,
On 5/5/19 09:06, Rick Thomas wrote:
On May 4, 2019, at 9:28 PM, Mail Delivery System
wrote:
: host bendel.debian.org[82.195.75.100] said:
550 5.7.1 No attachments allowed (in reply to end of DATA command)
Reporting-MTA: dns; pb-sasl20.pobox.com
Hmmm… I was trying to attach
On 5/5/19 08:46, Frank Scheiner wrote:
@Adrian:
The `hfsprogs` package was also not included in the older ISO from
2019-04-20 (I only checked the ppc64 one). Should we include it, so
off-line installations work?
OTOH should this even work? I.e. to install a base OS from just the
netinstall ISOS
On 5/5/19 00:27, Karl wrote:
Hope this helps
https://ibb.co/hmHrvfT
The installer can't find the `hfsprogs` package. I just checked the
Debian Ports FTP service and it's there, both for powerpc and ppc64. So
either your Internet connection was down or - if packages were installed
from the
On 5/3/19 06:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 5/3/19 12:06 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
The reason is that my `mk-hfs-bootstrap.sh` script relied on language
dependent information. I didn't recognize - nor expect - that this
information is language dependent until I used a different
Hi Roberto,
On 5/2/19 22:26, roberto.guardato wrote:
Hi,
i've tested image on powerbook g4. As on powermac g5, i could install
grub if i select english as default language, with Italian boot loader
installation fail.
I've used the same parameters for the installation attempts.
Thanks for
On 5/2/19 11:15, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Well you're doing great things. Wish I could test sparc as I have
plenty of that laying around. Even newer stuff just laying around.
What's holding you back? And more important (:-D): what have you
available? Maybe we should adjust our lists to not test
On 5/2/19 11:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 5/1/19 11:50 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
And last but not least, the most important impact: When started from the
internal optical drive (or any other supported boot device by the Open
Firmware OS Picker, i.e. holding the option key
Oops, forgot something, see below...
On 5/1/19 17:46, Frank Scheiner wrote:
In addition to that I also tested with the current kernel in the
experimental suite (5.0.0-trunk-powerpc64)
...and with this one I also couldn't reproduce the hangs. So this would
be another option for now
Hi Alexandre,
sorry for not coming back to you earlier, but I missed the time for a
more in-depth look into this matter.
On 4/20/19 03:00, Alexandre Bencz wrote:
Frank, what PCI cards you 9111-520 has ?
I don't have additional cards in my 9111-520. In the meantime I could
confirm that my
On 5/1/19 12:18, aggaz wrote:
For what is worth, I think that a developer in need to test several CD
images without burning them should consider investing in a FireWire HD.
As far as I know booting from FireWire should be much easier, but I
never tried it.
You don't even need a disk attached
On 4/30/19 21:56, Linux User #330250 wrote:
Despite what others said, it should really work with every Macintosh
that has the NewWorld bootrom and thus at least Open Firmware 3.0, i.e.
starting with the iMac "Bondi" 1998 and the PowerBook G3 "Lombard" 1999.
And, it's all already written down in
Hi Adrian,
On 4/30/19 12:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
I have dug out one of my iBook G4s now so I can perform installer tests
on the PowerMac target. While the machine has a built-in optical drive,
I would avoid having to burn CDs for every installation test run (even
when using
Hi,
On 4/27/19 23:39, roberto.guardato wrote:
Hi,
here are results of some tests carried out on the same hardware as above:
i was able to complete the installation by selecting always proposed
options.
If i change the system language to italian is not possible to complete
installation of the
Hi again,
On 4/28/19 21:56, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Other question: Does anybody know if NewWorld Power Macs could maybe
also boot from HFS+ instead of HFS or FAT(16)?
Probably answering my second question:
I just checked the OF on my 11,2 type Power Mac G5 and it - in addition
to `fat-files
Hi,
On 4/28/19 21:49, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
One could do it with HFS like Fedora ISO does with HFS+.
A small HFS+ filesystem image is marked in APM as Apple_HFS. In the ISO
it has the name /images/macboot.img.
Is that the same method as what `mkfs.hfs` can do with option:
```
-w Adds an
On 4/28/19 18:08, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
On 4/25/19 9:20 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
Best would be, of course, to fix the ofpathname from the IBM utils package.
Could you give more details as to why you believe this would be 'best'
? While I never had feedback from neither IBM
On 4/14/19 20:54, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 4/14/19 20:28, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Apr 13, 2019, at 5:39 AM, Frank Scheiner
wrote:
Do you happen to have a smaller disk (e.g. below 128 GB) available for
use? Or maybe you try with a separate small (512 MiB or so) `/boot`
partition directly after
Hi Roberto,
On 4/26/19 17:33, roberto.guardato wrote:
Hi Adrian,
i tried
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-04-20/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso
on Mid-2004 - M9457LL/A - PowerMac7,3 - A1047 - 1969C.
installation media is on CF card using a CF to Ide adapter, boot
pressing 'c' key
On 4/18/19 00:26, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 4/18/19 12:06 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>>> My guess is an update broke something, because I don't remember
>>> successfully rebooting after that, but I'm not sure.
>>
>> Sad to hear that. Doesn't `boot hd:
Hi Noah,
On 4/16/19 19:50, Noah Wolfe wrote:
> Hey all, it is I again.
>
> GRUB initially installed fine, and this G5 even booted off it several times,
> but I believe after an update to grub-ieee1275 installed, I can't boot back
> in. The boot selector does not display an HD with a penguin as
Hi David,
On 4/15/19 19:29, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
>
> Le 14/04/2019 à 23:35, Frank Scheiner a écrit :
>> Hi David,
>>
>> On 4/14/19 22:55, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
>>> I've got this error :
>>>
>>> https://framapic.org/VlzE2HdYGj1h/34Y0Cd8
On 4/15/19 15:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/15/19 3:37 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Well, the above excerpt shows that the script tries to read an invalid
path which might the result of one of the commands returning an error
instead of a usable path. I haven't looked at the details yet
On 4/15/19 15:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/15/19 3:19 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Mk-hfs-bootstrap: the HFS bootstrap partition couldn't be found. Cannot
continue! Exiting.
Main-menu: cat: can't open /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=SDB/string of
numbers/mountpoint: no such file
On 4/15/19 10:49, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/15/19 9:26 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
although this is already solved (with [1]), I wanted to notify you, that
the message I'm replying to, reached me (and possibly others) only after
your last message, though it was sent earlier.
I don't
Hi Noah,
although this is already solved (with [1]), I wanted to notify you, that
the message I'm replying to, reached me (and possibly others) only after
your last message, though it was sent earlier.
[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2019/04/msg00144.html
Looking into the message
Hi David,
On 4/14/19 22:55, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
I've got this error :
https://framapic.org/VlzE2HdYGj1h/34Y0Cd8rQUkB.png
https://framapic.org/Xo8dvME9qnMX/xPNVqm6HIrI0.png
Something's wrong here. The disk device (and not a partition) is used as
HFS bootstrap (partition) and formatted.
On 4/14/19 20:28, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Apr 13, 2019, at 5:39 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Do you happen to have a smaller disk (e.g. below 128 GB) available for
use? Or maybe you try with a separate small (512 MiB or so) `/boot`
partition directly after the HFS bootstrap partition, so the kernel
Hi Rick,
On 4/13/19 10:36, Rick Thomas wrote:
I tried the 2019-04-11 debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso on a PowerMac G4
Silver (PowerMac3,4).
[...]
Installation of GRUB was automatic and I was not asked anything.
No problems reported in this process.
I also don't see any issue in the syslog
On 4/10/19 12:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/10/19 12:17 PM, aggaz wrote:
Grub installation failed again with:
"An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again
from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step
is: Install the GRUB boot
On 4/10/19 14:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/10/19 2:48 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
UPDATE:
I tested that change with [1] in "normal" installation mode and it still
complains with "permission denied". It works through though, when I make
"mkhfs-bootstrap.sh&q
On 4/10/19 14:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
Thanks for the additional tests.
On 4/10/19 1:45 PM, aggaz wrote:
After changing the permissions of mkhfs-bootstrap.sh GRUB was properly
installed. During GRUB's installation I was asked by the installer:
"Force GRUB installation to
On 4/10/19 08:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/10/19 4:53 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
/usr/lib/grub-installer/mkhfs-bootstrap.sh: Permission denied
Frank, I suggest invoking your script with "sh -c", could you test this
patch?
--- grub-installer~ 2019-04-06 00:03:33.153827119 +0300
On 4/7/19 15:23, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
Le 07/04/2019 à 13:27, David VANTYGHEM a écrit :
Le 07/04/2019 à 13:26, Frank Scheiner a écrit :
On 4/7/19 11:45, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
Le 06/04/2019 à 23:31, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
On 4/6/19 10:41 PM, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
Done: https
On 4/7/19 13:47, aggaz wrote:
Il 07/04/19 13:24, Frank Scheiner ha scritto:
Nice, that the boot from USB stick worked for you. What type of G5 are
you using "7,2", "7,3", "9,1" or "11,2"? See [1] for details about the
different models.
Considering t
On 4/7/19 11:45, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
Le 06/04/2019 à 23:31, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
On 4/6/19 10:41 PM, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
Done: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-04-06/
I just tested this version on Qemu and I've got this error with Grub :
On 4/7/19 10:10, aggaz wrote:
I tried an installation of the new image
"debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso" from [1] on a PowerMac G5.
The image was copied with "dd" on a usb stick and then loaded with on
Open Firmware by using:
boot ud:,\install\yaboot
Nice, that the boot from USB stick worked
On 4/6/19 23:22, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/6/19 10:40 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Ok, looks like there's a "local" keyword used outside of a function in a
partman startup(?) file:
```
Apr 6 20:22:36 partman: No matching physical volumes found
Apr 6 20:22:36 partman: R
taller environment as `/usr/lib/grub-installer/mkhfs-bootstrap.sh`.
Cheers,
Frank
[1]:
https://salsa.debian.org/frank-scheiner-guest/grub-installer/raw/support-grub-installs-on-newworld-powermacs-with-hfs-bootstrap/mkhfs-bootstrap.sh
On 4/6/19 22:32, Dennis Clarke wrote:
OKay .. I don't know what is wrong but neither expert mode or just
regular "install" seems to be able to detect a disk nor run a partition
tool. However the /dev/sdaX links are in place. No idea.
If you're installation environment is still running, you
On 4/6/19 22:41, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
Done: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-04-06/
Hello,
I just tested this version on Qemu
What exact ISO did you use powerpc or ppc64?
...never mind, I just recognized your other mail.
So you are using the powerpc version, which could
On 4/6/19 22:02, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 4/6/19 21:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/6/19 9:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Frank could you please test the image yourself and report back?
Sure, I'll give it a try as soon as I find the time.
I would test it myself but I still haven't
On 4/6/19 21:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/6/19 9:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Frank could you please test the image yourself and report back?
Sure, I'll give it a try as soon as I find the time.
I would test it myself but I still haven't got the PowerPC machine back
online
On 4/6/19 21:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/6/19 9:00 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 4/6/19 20:19, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I just did a quick test here and ran into an inability to partition the
internal disk.
You can listen to me rambling about this at :
https://www.youtube.com
On 4/6/19 21:00, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 4/6/19 20:19, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I just did a quick test here and ran into an inability to partition the
internal disk.
You can listen to me rambling about this at :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQwwexSvpY0
Just skip ahead to the 3:45 time
On 4/6/19 20:19, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I just did a quick test here and ran into an inability to partition the
internal disk.
You can listen to me rambling about this at :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQwwexSvpY0
Just skip ahead to the 3:45 time mark and we can see partition process
is
Small Update:
On 4/6/19 14:51, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I will try to check if SP operation makes a difference, if I find out
how to disable MP operation, because there doesn't seem to be a SP
kernel available for ppc64. Hence I'm also not 100% sure that the
installer really operates in SP mode. I
Dear Alexandre,
On 3/29/19 23:46, Alexandre Bencz wrote:
Hi Frank!
Thanks for the awesome explanation!!
I tried, using only the DASD of position 1, but an error occurred, the
system was trying to detect the other DASDs
I will try with other DASDs combination and with other DASDs :)
I'm using
Hi Dennis,
On 4/5/19 22:44, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 4/5/19 4:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/5/19 10:03 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
So now I will test variations on what it says there and maybe I can pick
a mirror somewhere that works. However if "buster" is hard coded into
the pkg
r 3:0:1:0: [sr0] Aborting command: 00
[ 136.849923] ipr 0001:d0:01.0: Adapter being reset as a result of
error recovery.
[ 140.071856] ipr 0001:d0:01.0: Initializing IOA.
Alexandre S. Bencz
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On 29/03/2019 13:05, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 3/29/19 15:41, Alexandre Bencz
On 3/29/19 15:41, Alexandre Bencz wrote:
Hi!
It's possible to install debian on ibm 9111-520 machine, with 8 DASDs
and raid controller ?
Yes, I think so. I remember that it worked for me on a 9131-52A with
single disk and the built-in SCSI controller. I also have a 9111-520,
but don't remember
On 3/13/19 21:34, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:56 AM Frank Scheiner wrote:
by popular demand for a working d-i/grub-installer on NewWorld Power
Macs **with** HFS bootstrap method, I made this happen - again. :-D This
time with a reduced footprint compared to the patches
Dear all,
by popular demand for a working d-i/grub-installer on NewWorld Power
Macs **with** HFS bootstrap method, I made this happen - again. :-D This
time with a reduced footprint compared to the patches proposed in late
2017 (see [1]).
[1]:
Hi Stuart,
On 3/12/19 20:59, IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote:
It is instructive that I thought I had recalled knowing they were
Power5, absent any photos in that link for me to review, I think that is
what they are as they are quite aged. These servers are specifically
locked from being able
Hi Rick,
sorry, a little late.
On 2/10/19 01:28, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just tried installing the 2019/01/27 ppc64 NETINST-1 on my Powermac G5 7,3.
It booted OK and went thru the preliminaries, but about the time it got to
loading the partitioner, the windfarm fans started going crazy and I
On 3/6/19 17:40, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 07:28:08AM -0500, IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote:
I have some P710 or P720 (they are 4U rack mount) OpenServers from a number
of years ago that I believe are Power5. Is there a current (or older)
version of Debian that works
On 3/7/19 15:41, aggaz wrote:
I managed to re-install openSUSE, still without success.
[...]
Given that the first (unsuccessful) install was done by GPT, this time I
used MS-DOS.
[...]
This is how it looks like on fdisk:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 *
On 3/7/19 10:09, aggaz wrote:
To be clearer, Fedora's GRUB did work too. I was able to boot the
CD-image and I saw GRUB starting kernel/initrd, but this boot step failed.
So, as a matter of fact, GRUB as a loader for the kernels from the
CD-images always worked.
I can try Fedora with the CD
On 3/7/19 16:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/7/19 11:41 PM, aggaz wrote:
Given that the first (unsuccessful) install was done by GPT, this time I
used MS-DOS.
I'm not sure but I don't think OpenFirmware will accept an MS-DOS partition
table, so it's most likely pointless to continue
On 3/7/19 08:56, aggaz wrote:
As previously requested [1, 2], I did some tests regarding GRUB on PPC64
as provided by other distributions.
I did my tests on a PowerMac G5 late 2005.
My attempts failed miserably.
Sad to hear that, but now we at least know the status.
Fedora:
I was unable to
Hi Karl,
On 2/26/19 17:34, Carlos wrote:
Hello Adrian,
when you are talking about GRUB, are you talking about GRUB2?
Are you aware of this page?
http://cynic.cc/blog/posts/running_grub2_on_powerpc_macs/
I just found this page. Don’t know if this helps your development.
Let me answer for
On 1/28/19 15:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/28/19 3:05 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:>> What would be the gain of
implementing this? Sure, it would be possible
to implement it. But for what particular reasons and why would it be
required for Yaboot?
I believe the current d-i/
On 1/28/19 14:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/28/19 2:18 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Theoretically something similar could be created - at a different place
though, i.e. before the partitioning step - to support both HFS and
FAT16 bootstrap methods in the installer for NewWorld Power
On 1/28/19 14:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/28/19 1:52 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
@Rick:
I thought about something like this since Mark reported the bootstrap
limits in OpenBIOS. It could in principle work similar to the switch
between non-GPT and GPT capable SPARC hardware ([1
On 1/28/19 12:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I realize that this may require some programming, but would it be possible
to have it ask a question early on (maybe at or before the beginning of
partitioning) requesting the user to choose between
On 1/28/19 10:19, Rick Thomas wrote:
When it got to trying to install grub, that failed (as expected). I
chose to “continue without boot loader”. It wrapped up and ejected the
CD then paused before trying to reboot. While it was paused I switched
to the alt- console and did the following{2}:
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