Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi, On Wed, 2024-03-06 at 12:57 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > p, the second, older image works as expected. However, the recent one does > > not > > and I have absolutely no clue why. > > I actually tested both, and both work, but then I cited the wrong one in > my email >_< > > So at

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-03-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Michael, On Wed, 2024-03-06 at 12:57 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > Yep, the second, older image works as expected. However, the recent one > > does not > > and I have absolutely no clue why. > > I actually tested both, and both work, but then I cited the wrong one in > my email >_< > >

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-03-05 Thread Michael Ellerman
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 12:56 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> That second iso boots OK for me in qemu. It boots grub and then the >> kernel loads and shows: >> >> Loading ... >> OF stdout device is: /pci@f000/mac-io@c/escc@13000/ch-a@13020 >>

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-03-01 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 03:47:26PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > The problem is that the newer image doesn't boot and currently I don't know > why because installing the exact same kernel later from the package manager > into an installed system works yields a bootable system with the

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-03-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Michael, On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 12:56 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > OK. > > That second iso boots OK for me in qemu. It boots grub and then the > kernel loads and shows: > > Loading ... > OF stdout device is: /pci@f000/mac-io@c/escc@13000/ch-a@13020 > Preparing to boot Linux

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-29 Thread Michael Ellerman
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > Hi Michael, > > On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 17:42 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> > There seems to be a regression in the kernel which affects PowerPC 970 >> > machines, >> > i.e. PowerMac G5 CPUs. The issue needs to be bisected and reported >> > upstream. >> >>

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Michael, On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 17:42 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > There seems to be a regression in the kernel which affects PowerPC 970 > > machines, > > i.e. PowerMac G5 CPUs. The issue needs to be bisected and reported upstream. > > I have a quad G5 that is booting mainline happily.

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-28 Thread Michael Ellerman
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 04:16 +0100, tuxayo wrote: >> I tried snapshots/2024-01-31/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso >> >> And was able to start booting from usb with: >> boot usb0/disk@1:,\boot\grub\powerpc.elf >> (typed in Open Firmware shell) >> (usb0 is the

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-28 Thread tuxayo
On 24-02-20 10:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: There seems to be a regression in the kernel which affects PowerPC 970 machines, i.e. PowerMac G5 CPUs. The issue needs to be bisected and reported upstream. If you have the time, I would really appreciate if you could test the various

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello, On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 04:16 +0100, tuxayo wrote: > I tried snapshots/2024-01-31/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > > And was able to start booting from usb with: > boot usb0/disk@1:,\boot\grub\powerpc.elf > (typed in Open Firmware shell) > (usb0 is the top port) > > Grub worked, and