Re: BootX documentation

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 2:47 PM, David VANTYGHEM wrote: > Perhaps any interesting things in this file ? > > https://opensource.apple.com/source/bless/bless-37/README.BOOTING It does answer some questions, namely about blessing, the tbxi attribute and the number of backslahes in the OpenFirmware path to be

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

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 >

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

BootX documentation

2021-04-16 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Perhaps any interesting things in this file ? https://opensource.apple.com/source/bless/bless-37/README.BOOTING -- Passez à Linux : https://infolib.re .--. |o_o | ||_/ | //\\Envoyé depuis mon Linux (| |) / \_ _/ \ \___)=(___/

Re: APT and APT-Get unable to fetch packages.

2021-04-16 Thread Alex McKeever
I use a Realtek wireless dongle with the iMac... an 8192CU based Edimax dongle to be precise. It worked during the package portion of the install but not now. Sent from AT Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, April 16, 2021, 1:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/16/21 12:50 AM, Alex

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 

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

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

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

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-16 Thread David VANTYGHEM
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

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

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 

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 Mac’s firmware just won’t detect it if it’s copied to

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

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 

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!  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: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 

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!  Really nice. To say it with words

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 -

Network

2021-04-16 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Perhaps I had a problem with my network configuration in qemu. Sorry for the noise. -- Passez à Linux : https://infolib.re .--. |o_o | ||_/ | //\\Envoyé depuis mon Linux (| |) / \_ _/ \ \___)=(___/

Re: Can't reach ftp.ports.debian.org

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 10:52 AM, David VANTYGHEM wrote: > Trying to do another installation. After choosing LXDE, I can't reach > ftp.ports.debian.org server from qemu (but my network is working well). > I had this error too yesterday. Sometimes, the installation goes until > the end, sometimes, it fails :

Can't reach ftp.ports.debian.org

2021-04-16 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Trying to do another installation. After choosing LXDE, I can't reach ftp.ports.debian.org server from qemu (but my network is working well). I had this error too yesterday. Sometimes, the installation goes until the end, sometimes, it fails : A problem with the server ? -- Passez à Linux :

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 16/04/2021 08:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/16/21 9:29 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: Because I am starting to question my sanity. If you're showing me that arch-detect is detecting the machine correctly and you used the latest image which I tested myself on real hardware, then

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 9:26 AM, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > The system even booted into grub but than failed with > > Welcome to GRUB! > > Invalid memory access at %SRR0: 00100cbc %SSR1: 10003030 > > I haven't seen this kind of error on the list before, so I'm a bit > clueless. That's something that needs to

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 9:29 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> Because I am starting to question my sanity. If you're showing me that >> arch-detect >> is detecting the machine correctly and you used the latest image which I >> tested >> myself on real hardware, then it's not possible that the partioner will

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-04-16 Thread Uwe Steinmann
Am Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:43:58PM +0200 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > Hi! > > Here are the first test images where the installation of GRUB on PowerMacs > should finally work properly [1]. It took me quite some time and effort with > lots of testing to get the implementation right.

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 16/04/2021 08:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/16/21 8:59 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: The interesting part will be to see what arch-detect prints out in the installer. You can just run it from a second terminal. If it doesn't detect a newworld machine, GRUB installation won't work.

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 8:59 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> The interesting part will be to see what arch-detect prints out in the >> installer. You can just run it from a second terminal. If it doesn't >> detect a newworld machine, GRUB installation won't work. > > Here's what I see with -M mac99: > > ~ #

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 8:53 AM, David VANTYGHEM wrote: > I don't have arch-detect but a archdetect command : > > # archdetect > > powerpc/powermac_newworld Then I have no clue what's wrong and you will need to debug the problem yourself. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 16/04/2021 07:47, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/16/21 8:36 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: Your machine is obviously not detected as a New World PowerMac and thus, none of the mechanisms for New World PowerMacs are applied. If archdetect doesn't show you're on a

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 16/04/2021 07:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/16/21 8:39 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/libdebian-installer/-/blob/master/src/system/subarch-powerpc-linux.c Here's what I get for the QEMU machines: The interesting part will be to see what

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-04-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/16/21 2:43 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/16/21 8:29 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> I also see similar behavior. However I simply used the most trivial >> partition options in the default installer AND with the expert mode and >> in both cases I see in partman log : > > Yes, I

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-04-16 Thread Johannes Brakensiek
On 16 Apr 2021, at 8:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: But that's an issue with how the image was assembled, not with the changes per se. I don't need any additional reports on ppc64, I already saw my mistake. Great, thank you. Would you like to point us the fresh image once it’s

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Le 16/04/2021 à 08:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : On 4/16/21 8:39 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/libdebian-installer/-/blob/master/src/system/subarch-powerpc-linux.c Here's what I get for the QEMU machines: The interesting part will be to see

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 8:39 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >>> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/libdebian-installer/-/blob/master/src/system/subarch-powerpc-linux.c > > Here's what I get for the QEMU machines: The interesting part will be to see what arch-detect prints out in the installer. You can just

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 8:36 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> Your machine is obviously not detected as a New World PowerMac and thus, >> none of the mechanisms for >> New World PowerMacs are applied. If archdetect doesn't show you're on a >> "powerpc/powermac_newworld", >> neither the automatic partioning nor

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 8:29 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I also see similar behavior. However I simply used the most trivial > partition options in the default installer AND with the expert mode and > in both cases I see in partman log : Yes, I made a mistake in the ppc64 image because I couldn't test it

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 8:14 AM, David VANTYGHEM wrote: > Under QEMU, my machine is : > > https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/YT77NWCuXe-1Zei6sAam49SS/ > > (pcmacgeneration : NewWorld) The deciding factor is what "arch-detect" shows on your machine and if the strings aren't shown as "arch-detect" expects

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 16/04/2021 07:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/16/21 7:56 AM, David VANTYGHEM wrote: Inded, I don't have the HFS partition too. Then the emulation is not behaving as a real machine. QEMU needs display the right information below /proc/cpuinfo:

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 16/04/2021 06:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/16/21 1:27 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: Yeah. From what I can see from links [1] and [2] I'd expect this to be working now. Let me run an install of the latest ISO here, since then I can then use a debugger on QEMU/OpenBIOS to find

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-04-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/15/21 4:07 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > thanks for your work again! > > On 14 Apr 2021, at 22:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> Let me know how the image works for you, then I can commit the changes >> for >> the grub-installer package to git when we know it

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Le 16/04/2021 à 08:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : On 4/16/21 7:56 AM, David VANTYGHEM wrote: Inded, I don't have the HFS partition too. Then the emulation is not behaving as a real machine. QEMU needs display the right information below /proc/cpuinfo:

Re: Current status on grub-installer on PowerMac

2021-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/16/21 7:56 AM, David VANTYGHEM wrote: > Inded, I don't have the HFS partition too. Then the emulation is not behaving as a real machine. QEMU needs display the right information below /proc/cpuinfo: >