Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-23 Thread userm57
On 4/23/20 1:47 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Stan! > > On 4/23/20 9:32 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff6 at %SRR0: ff80aac50 %SPR1: 000b030 method >> not found; ihandle=ff9d2740 phandle=ff86a4c8 ... >>> >>> To me, the "draw-rectangle" message

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Stan! On 4/23/20 9:32 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff6 at %SRR0: ff80aac50 %SPR1: 000b030 method > not found; ihandle=ff9d2740 phandle=ff86a4c8 >>> ... >> >> To me, the "draw-rectangle" message suggests that Open Firmware on the >> Lombard is too old for

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-23 Thread userm57
On 4/23/20 10:15 AM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > On 4/21/20 9:10 AM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >> ... DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff6 at %SRR0: ff80aac50 %SPR1: 000b030 method not found; ihandle=ff9d2740 phandle=ff86a4c8 >> ... > > To me, the "draw-rectangle" message suggests that

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-23 Thread userm57
On 4/21/20 9:10 AM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > ... >>> >>> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff6 at %SRR0: ff80aac50 %SPR1: 000b030 method >>> not found; ihandle=ff9d2740 phandle=ff86a4c8 > ... To me, the "draw-rectangle" message suggests that Open Firmware on the Lombard is too old for whatever Forth

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/23/20 10:08 AM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > Would be nice to make some notes somewhere: > > https://wiki.debian.org/OpenBoot > https://wiki.debian.org/OpenFirmware > https://wiki.debian.org/BootLoader > > for other people trying to boot debian on powerpc. Also, someone could also make an

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ed! On 4/23/20 5:58 AM, Ed Robbins wrote: > FWIW, I have been booting the new images from USB, and there the command is > boot ud:,\\grub.elf > > This is despite the fact that the ISO looks like it should want to > boot boot/grub/powerpc.elf > > Remember also that you can list files in OF

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-23 Thread Anatoly Pugachev
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 6:58 AM Ed Robbins wrote: > > > 0 > boot cd:,\install\vmlinux > > > MAC-PARTS: can't find a default partition > > > can't OPEN: cd:,\install\vmlinux > > > > > > 0 > boot cd:,\install\initrd.gz > > > MAC-PARTS: can't find a default partition > > > can't OPEN:

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-22 Thread Ed Robbins
On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 15:12, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 4/20/20 3:30 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> Did you try loading GRUB directly from the OpenFirmware prompt? > > > > From the Open Firmware prompt, the Debian 7.8 CD can be booted using the > > following command: > > 0 > boot

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-21 Thread userm57
On 4/20/20 7:50 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > ... > So for now I'm stuck using Yaboot on the Lombard. As a workaround, I am > able to start up the installer from the CD by copying its vmlinux and > initrd to the /boot directory of an old installation on the Lombard, and > then setting up Yaboot

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/21/20 4:38 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> I think you forgot to the "mac-support" branch as the OF path >> string is missing the partition suffix. > > This seems to be a recurring theme. > > Maybe Master should check for OS X, and tell the user to switch to the > mac-support branch. > > The

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:23 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > ... > >> ... > >> If you want to verify that the updated version shows the paths correctly, > >> you have to checkout the script from git and run it from there: > >> > >> # https://github.com/glaubitz/powerpc-utils.git > >> #

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread userm57
On 4/20/20 7:27 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, at 9:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 4/20/20 6:02 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >>> Yes, I forgot to checkout the mac-support branch. Here are the new results: >>> >>> root@lombard:/data/software/powerpc-utils#

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, at 9:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/20/20 6:02 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Yes, I forgot to checkout the mac-support branch. Here are the new results: > > > > root@lombard:/data/software/powerpc-utils# ./scripts/ofpathname --version > > ofpathname:

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/20/20 6:02 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > Yes, I forgot to checkout the mac-support branch. Here are the new results: > > root@lombard:/data/software/powerpc-utils# ./scripts/ofpathname --version > ofpathname: Version 0.5 > Written by: Nathan Fontenot > >

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread userm57
On 4/20/20 9:23 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> ... >>> If you want to verify that the updated version shows the paths correctly, >>> you have to checkout the script from git and run it from there: >>> >>> # https://github.com/glaubitz/powerpc-utils.git >>> # git checkout mac-support >>>

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/20/20 5:07 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >> This should actually work unless the system has issues reading the >> CD-ROM itself or the HFS+ filesystem used on the CD-ROM. > > ok, thanks. The CD is recognized as HFS+ by Mac OS 9.2.2 (325,167,104 > bytes for 1,284 items). Running Debian SID

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread userm57
On 4/20/20 8:12 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/20/20 3:30 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >>> Did you try loading GRUB directly from the OpenFirmware prompt? >> >> From the Open Firmware prompt, the Debian 7.8 CD can be booted using the >> following command: >> 0 > boot

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/20/20 3:30 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >> Did you try loading GRUB directly from the OpenFirmware prompt? > > From the Open Firmware prompt, the Debian 7.8 CD can be booted using the > following command: > 0 > boot cd:,\install\yaboot > > From the Open Firmware prompt, the Debian SID CD

Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread userm57
On 4/19/20 11:58 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > ... > Some error messages would be nice. What's preventing the boot? I don't know what's preventing the CD from booting. I don't see any error messages; the CD just doesn't seem to be a bootable device. The Debian 7.8 CD does boot. > Did