Re: PB G4 Installation

On 5/21/20 12:50 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 5/21/20 2:49 AM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >> ... Google found some articles related to this; I will take a look >> at those and see if there is anything helpful. Meanwhile, yaboot works >> on the PB G4 in Debian SID to boot Mac OS Tiger,

Re: PB G4 Installation

On 5/20/20 5:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 5/20/20 10:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix the GRUB configuration to >>> allow booting of Mac OS X partitions? I'll study the man pages, but if >>> I can't get it to work, I'll

PB G4 Installation

Hello, I installed Debian SID from the 4/19/2020 installation CD to a PowerBook G4, 1.5 GHz, 1.25 GB memory. It seems to have installed well -- thanks to everyone who is working to maintain Debian for PowerPC! This system has valid installations of Mac OS X Tiger and Mac OS X Leopard. During

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

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

Pismo Works (was Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

The Pismo boots without any problems from the 2020-04-19 Debian SID CD. It has Open Firmware (OF) 4.1.0f5; the Lombard has OF 1.0f1. I'm not sure what the minimum OF version is, but 1.0f1 appears to be too old, at least for this version of GRUB. The installation proceeds normally, including

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

On 4/19/20 12:30 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:> ... > These images should finally fix the installation process on Apple > PowerMacs and PowerBooks compatible with GRUB, so basically every > Macintosh using the New World ROM [2]. > > One user already reported a successful installation on

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

Sorry, my mistake; Debian 7 and Debian SID ofpathnames match, I was looking at ofpath. On 4/16/20 11:38 AM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > On 4/16/20 9:23 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi! >> >> ... >> >> Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils >>

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

On 4/16/20 9:23 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > ... > > Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils > package on different physical disks, e.g. sda1 and sdb1 and do the same with > the ofpath command? > > Adrian > Hi Adrian, The following

Re: How to track sudden poweroff ?

On 1/30/20 8:31 AM, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote: > >> Le 27 janv. 2020 à 04:15, Stan Johnson > > a écrit : >> >> >> After adding these windfarm options to my kernel .config file and >> re-compiling the kernel, the unexpected shutdowns have stopped: >> >> (kernel: 5.2.9,

Re: How to track sudden poweroff ?

On 1/26/20 6:55 AM, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote: > Hi ! > Since I've installed ppc64 sid on powermac 7,3 G5, I encounter sudden > shutdowns. These can happen very often if I use the machine, but they > also happen when I leave it idle. It's a very strong reason not to use > sid on this computer. > >

Re: Failed install attempt - GRUB issue - hfsprogs missing?

Hi Riccardo, On 6/25/19 3:50 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> It can be done from any running system, it doesn't really matter whether >> it's been booted off a CD-ROM or from any other medium. >> >> But I will be looking into this issue

Re: Debian certs

On 6/19/19 8:32 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hello, > > After installing Debian 10 SID (from 5/24/2019) on a PowerBook G3 > Wallstreet, I am trying to recompile the stock Debian 10 SID kernel > "vmlinux-4.19.0-5-powerpc". > > The compilation fails with the following error: > > ... > CHK

Debian certs

Hello, After installing Debian 10 SID (from 5/24/2019) on a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet, I am trying to recompile the stock Debian 10 SID kernel "vmlinux-4.19.0-5-powerpc". The compilation fails with the following error: ... CHK include/generated/compile.h CALL

Re: Debian Jessie mirrors

On 5/3/19 11:36 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Pshemek! > > On 5/4/19 12:29 AM, Przemys??aw Buczkowski wrote: >> I tried to update it today but it seems that powerpc Jessie packages were >> removed from all the official Debian mirrors; > Yes, all the mirror for Debian Jessie

Re: Installation of Debian on an iMac PowerPC

On 2/12/19 3:12 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> On Feb 12, 2019, at 10:46 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Grub for Powerpc is still a work in progress. It may not work on your old >> G3 machine. Jessie uses the older “yaboot” bootloader, which may be more >> stable for your situation.

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

On 2/1/19 8:57 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:38 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: The Lombard is NewWorld, so yaboot works.  Yes, BootX is needed for OldWorld systems.

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

On 2/1/19 8:33 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:25 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >> >>> On 2/1/19 2:19 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >>> Hi Adrian, >>> >>> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

On 2/1/19 2:19 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot >> or SILO except for personal preference, I do absolutely see no reason >> why I should carry the additional maintenance burden

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

On 1/28/19 6:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 1/28/19 2:30 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> Yaboot is unmaintained upstream and does not support modern ext4 features. >>> In >>> order for Yaboot to work properly, you have to turn certain features in ext4 >>> off, otherwise it won't work and

Re: Updated installation images 2019-01-26 missing debian-ports-archive-keyring

On 1/27/19 12:08 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > ... > Updated images here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-27/ > > Adrian > Adrian, The new powerpc installation CD works on a PowerBook G3 Lombard; thanks! It still tries to install grub-ieee1275, which fails, as

Re: Error Installing from PowerPC CD (was Re: Updated installation images 2019-01-21)

On 1/26/19 3:37 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 1/26/19 4:40 AM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >> So, here are my results today attempting to install Debian 10/sid: >> >> >> *** 1) Lombard (New World) *** >> >> As expected, the CD booted. The CD drive was detected, and >> everything seemed

Re: Error Installing from PowerPC CD (was Re: Updated installation images 2019-01-21)

I tried to install the updated PowerPC CD for Debian 10/sid, located here: "https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-25/;. I tried installing on a PowerBook G3 Lombard and on a PowerBook G3 Series Wallstreet. Both systems previously had Debian 7.8 installed. Earlier, I had installed

Error Installing from PowerPC CD (was Re: Updated installation images 2019-01-21)

On the powerpc image at: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-21/ the file: ./pool-powerpc/man/y/yaboot/yaboot_1.3.17-4+ports_powerpc.deb does not have the correct checksum in ./md5sum.txt This prevents the installation on powerpc macs from working, with the error noted below. On

Re: Updated installation images 2019-01-21

On 1/21/19 4:48 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > I have created updated installation images for Debian Ports, > please find the updated images below and test them [1]. > > Feedback welcome. > > Adrian > >> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-21/ Hello, Thanks