On Thu, Apr 22, 2021, at 7:16 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I suspect that this difference is what's producing the "error: can't
> open device" messages on the ppc64, and why they do not appear on the
> amd64. If I did a manual partitioning install on the amd64 that
> mimicked the layout of the
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021, at 4:26 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >> This issue might not even specific to PowerMacs, so it
> >> would make more
> >> sense first to test this on x86 systems and report a bug against
> >> src:grub2 or partman-lvm
> >> if the issue shows there as well.
> >
>
On 4/20/21 10:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, at 2:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> I don't understand the hurry to
>> make everything
>> perfect at once.
>
> I'm sorry if it seems that way. That is not my intent. I'm just reporting
> what I see.
> It's definitely
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, at 2:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I don't understand the hurry to
> make everything
> perfect at once.
I'm sorry if it seems that way. That is not my intent. I'm just reporting
what I see.
It's definitely not mission critical. The machine still boots,
On 4/20/21 11:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Presumably, this message, and the check that issues it, are relics of the
> past when
> grub was not able to dig into LVM partitions to find the kernel and initrd.
> Now that
> grub understands LVM, the check and associated message are no longer
>
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, at 11:33 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 4/20/21 3:42 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > (1) Can we get rid of the seemingly unnecessary error message about not
> > having a /boot partition?
>
> As I said, it's a known issue and I'm going to fix it at some point. But
>
On 4/20/21 3:42 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> (1) Can we get rid of the seemingly unnecessary error message about not
> having a /boot partition?
As I said, it's a known issue and I'm going to fix it at some point. But
since I am doing this in my freetime and I'm not getting paid for that,
I'm not
Well... I'm not very good at letting well enough alone, so I tried installing
again. This time I used the "default install" and when it came to
partitioning, I chose the LVM option. This time, it complained that there was
no partition for /boot (though when I poked around a bit, there _was_
I tried it this afternoon on my PowerMac G5 - PowerMac7,3. Works great! I
used the default installation and "all in one partition" partitioning. Let me
know if you would like me to try something else.
Thanks so much for all your work! This is fantastic...
Enjoy!
Rick
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021,
On 17 Apr 2021, at 10:19, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
This is likely correct. I experienced the same issue when trying to
boot from USB.
I just burned a plain old bootable CD and things worked fine.
Yep, I think that both of you are correct. I had no trouble to boot from
USB using this OF
On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 2:48 AM Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, at 5:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 4/16/21 1:57 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Ok, good to know. Then I suppose the Mac’s firmware just won’t detect it
> > > if it’s copied to a USB
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, at 5:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 4/16/21 1:57 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
> >
> > On 16 Apr 2021, at 13:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >
> >> But the image is blessed in HFS vocabulary. If you insert such a CD and
> >> press the
> >> key
On 4/16/21 9:01 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 4/16/21 2:55 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Then if I accept this :
>>
>> Your boot partition is not located on the first primary partition of
>> your hard disk. This is needed by your machine in order to boot.
>> Please go back
On 4/16/21 2:55 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Then if I accept this :
>
> Your boot partition is not located on the first primary partition of
> your hard disk. This is needed by your machine in order to boot.
> Please go back and use your first primary partition as a boot
>
On 4/16/21 5:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> As promised, new images:
>
>> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-16/
>
> ppc64 should install fine on PowerMac G5 now.
>
> Adrian
>
In partman log I see :
parted_server: OUT: 1 512-32767 32256
On 4/16/21 1:57 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
>
> On 16 Apr 2021, at 13:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
>> But the image is blessed in HFS vocabulary. If you insert such a CD and
>> press the
>> key during boot, the CD will be selectable during boot.
>
> Ok, good to know. Then I
On 4/16/21 1:56 PM, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
> I tried a new installation with 14/04 ISO file, default installation,
> whole disk and only one partition (no /home partition). I've got this
> error message at the end :
Well, this is an error with setting the contents of NVRAM. Your emulated
machine
On 4/16/21 5:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> As promised, new images:
>
>> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-16/
>
> ppc64 should install fine on PowerMac G5 now.
>
> Adrian
>
I will jump on that right now !
--
Dennis Clarke
Le 16/04/2021 à 14:00, Johannes Brakensiek a écrit :
Hey David,
On 16 Apr 2021, at 13:56, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
In english : The boot partition isn't the first primary partition on
the disk. This is necessary to boot the machine. Please restart and
use the first primary partition as boot
Hey David,
On 16 Apr 2021, at 13:56, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
In english : The boot partition isn't the first primary partition on
the disk. This is necessary to boot the machine. Please restart and
use the first primary partition as boot partition.
If you don't come back to the partition
On 16 Apr 2021, at 13:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
But the image is blessed in HFS vocabulary. If you insert such a CD
and press the
key during boot, the CD will be selectable during boot.
Ok, good to know. Then I suppose the Mac’s firmware just won’t
detect it if it’s copied to
I tried a new installation with 14/04 ISO file, default installation,
whole disk and only one partition (no /home partition). I've got this
error message at the end :
Then I'm trying with today ISO file and now, the installations fails here :
In english : The boot partition isn't the first
Hi!
On 4/16/21 1:38 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
>> ppc64 should install fine on PowerMac G5 now.
>
> hooray! It works - smoothly! Very great!
OK, good. It was an obvious oversight when building the image and had nothing
to do with the changes I made to the various d-i packages itself.
>
Hello Adrian,
On 16 Apr 2021, at 11:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
As promised, new images:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-16/
ppc64 should install fine on PowerMac G5 now.
hooray! It works - smoothly! Very great!
Really nice. To say it with words
Hello!
As promised, new images:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-16/
ppc64 should install fine on PowerMac G5 now.
Adrian
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