Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-23 Thread Rick Thomas
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 p

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
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. > > >

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 n

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-20 Thread Rick Thomas
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, jus

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 > necess

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-20 Thread Rick Thomas
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 >

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 wor

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-19 Thread Rick Thomas
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_ a

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-19 Thread Rick Thomas
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,

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 ๐ŸŽ‰

2021-04-17 Thread Johannes Brakensiek
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 comman

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 ๐ŸŽ‰

2021-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
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 Macโ€™s firmware just wonโ€™t detect it > > > if itโ€™s copied to a USB stick

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 ๐ŸŽ‰

2021-04-16 Thread Rick Thomas
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 duri

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
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 and

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 > partition

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
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

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 ๐ŸŽ‰

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 suppos

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 d

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
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 RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/AR

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-16 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Le 16/04/2021 ร  14:00, Johannes Brakensiek a รฉcritย : 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 pa

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-16 Thread Johannes Brakensiek
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 menu

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 ๐ŸŽ‰

2021-04-16 Thread Johannes Brakensiek
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 Macโ€™s firmware just wonโ€™t detect it if itโ€™s copied to a

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-16 Thread David VANTYGHEM
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 pr

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 ๐ŸŽ‰

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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! ๐ŸŽ‰ 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. > Re

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 ๐ŸŽ‰

2021-04-16 Thread Johannes Brakensiek
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! ๐ŸŽ‰ Really nice. To say it with words li

Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! As promised, new images: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-16/ ppc64 should install fine on PowerMac G5 now. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berl