Re: jessie powermac yboot: ybin fails

Hi Rick, On 03/05/2018 04:01 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: For what it’s worth, here is the /etc/yaboot.conf on my PowerMac G5 that has both OSX and Debian Sid Thanks for the info. I now tried several variations on my Mac mini G4 and it looks like `ybin` only complains if it cannot translate the

Re: grub-ieee1275 on powerbook G4

* John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [2018-03-07 16:43 +0100]: > On 03/07/2018 04:25 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > > Maybe I'll try 2.0.2-2 or earlier... > > > > Thanks for your efforts. > > This would be extremely useful. Thank you. You might have run into >

Re: jessie powermac yboot: ybin fails [solved]

On 03/05/2018 01:34 AM, Felix Miata wrote: what Debian release are you actually running and what yaboot version (shown above yaboot boot prompt) have you installed? I'm running Sid (just upgraded all packages minutes ago) and yaboot 1.3.17. 1.3.16 on Jessie. I've never discovered any

Re: jessie powermac yboot: ybin fails [solved]

On 03/07/2018 08:40 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> 1.3.16 on Jessie. I've never discovered any indication anything newer than >> Jessie was available for a G4. If I s/jessie/stretch/g sources.list, I get 5 >> errors from apt-get update for failing to find index files. > > IIC, powerpc is only

Re: grub-ieee1275 on powerbook G4

On 03/07/2018 07:56 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> This would be extremely useful. Thank you. You might have run into >> a bug. > > 2.0.2-2 doesn't build on my powerbook (sid environment). Binaries > are not available. Binaries earlier than buster are not applicable > as they were build against

grub-ieee1275 on powerbook G4

Hi all, I've rebooted my powerbook again via grub-ieee1275 and landet in grub_rescue complaining "error symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found" Various reports in the net recommend to purge grub completely and reinstall. Did that supported by a install cd and chroot with no effect. Did't

Re: grub-ieee1275 on powerbook G4

On 03/07/2018 03:13 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: I've rebooted my powerbook again via grub-ieee1275 and landet in grub_rescue complaining "error symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found" Did you follow that guide? http://cynic.cc/blog/posts/running_grub2_on_powerpc_macs/ Getting GRUB

Re: grub-ieee1275 on powerbook G4

* John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [2018-03-07 15:26 +0100]: > On 03/07/2018 03:13 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > I've rebooted my powerbook again via grub-ieee1275 and landet in > > grub_rescue complaining "error symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not > > found" > >

Re: grub-ieee1275 on powerbook G4

On 03/07/2018 04:25 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: http://cynic.cc/blog/posts/running_grub2_on_powerpc_macs/ No. grub was working perfect for about 4 years now. From of prompt choose linux and the grub screen popped up, though Ok, that's an important piece of information that was missing.