Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian! John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: It's not showing any partitions, see "List of all partitions". It looks like it's not even detecting your hard drive. but the installer knerl detected everything and installed, the installed kernel not, isn't that strange? I wonder if it is due to

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/30/18 11:09 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:> The extract of the boot dmesg says, screenshot attached. It's not showing any partitions, see "List of all partitions". It looks like it's not even detecting your hard drive. I will create new images this weekend, then you can retry. Adrian --

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Nov 30, 2018, at 10:00 AM, Riccardo Mottola > wrote: > > I am doing a second installation attempt right now, keeping the original > parittions but reformatting them; but... Rather than reinstalling, you should give us a screenshot or a textcopy of the kernel panic. Adrian

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I tried booting of from the USB, but I don't know where to get the system yaboot.conf from now I have an installed systen (I hope) but cannot boot it. My idea was to do the same USB trick again, but on the ard disk, thus doing: 1. boot

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread Risto Suominen
2018-11-29 19:54 UTC+02.00, Riccardo Mottola : > Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Is there a way to list files from OF, just to be sure the device and paths > are correct? > I think there is a 'dir' command with same syntax as 'boot'. Risto

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi John John Ogness wrote: Have you checked if the device is recognized? With the OF command "devalias" you can see what usb0 is. For example, for me it is: /pci@f200/usb@1b,1 You can manually traverse the device tree and see if the USB disk is detected: dev usb0 ls <--- should show

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread John Ogness
On 2018-11-29, John Ogness wrote: > On a side note, it is a bit frustrating that I provided a patch and > even NMU package [0] with a fix 3 months ago but because it is not > being accepted, people like you continue to waste our time on this > issue. Sorry, I think that last sentence was

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread John Ogness
Hi Riccardo, On 2018-11-29, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I did try to get debian 8.11.0 netinst on an USB stick > > I am unable to boot that stick, neither with just "boot usb" from OF, > neither using this: > > 1. download jessie powerpc netinst iso[1] and dd it to a USB stick > > 2. boot into

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 11/29/18 18:54, Riccardo Mottola wrote: If I do:    boot usb0/disk@1:2,\install\yaboot -> Can't open device or file    boot usb1/disk@1:2,\install\yaboot -> Can't open device or file    boot usb1a/disk@1:2,\install\yaboot I get a big grey screen with the "not found" sign in the middle,

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Riccardo Mottola wrote: I did not try any USB tricks, I always had issues with USB sticks on Mac, this is why I ent to optical media. I did try to get debian 8.11.0 netinst on an USB stick I am unable to boot that stick, neither with just "boot usb" from OF, neither using this: 1.

issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! I want to install on my iBook G4. It is a slightly different model than the one I succeded 10 days ago... this is the 14" version and not the 12". The last one had a motherboard failure, so I can't "test" on the old one. I burned on CD the iso from here,