Re: rescue of install / booting from USB

2019-01-05 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Frank! good news. On 1/3/19 8:13 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Afterwards maybe check a hash (e.g. SHA256) of the file on both sender and receiver to be sure it was transferred intact. When chrooted to the actual installation, you should have hfsutils around (`/proc` and `/sys` might need

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: rescue of install / booting from USB

2019-01-01 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/1/19 19:10, Riccardo Mottola 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? Then,

rescue of install / booting from USB

2019-01-01 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all! if you remember, I was able to install from CD-ROM to my hard disk of the iBook G4, but then I am unable to boot it because yaboot issues the dreaded "Decrementer exception". I thought at first to try the trick I used for booting using the USB key and then from the CDROM also for