Hello Jeffrey! On 2/27/21 1:37 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> If anyone knows about some particular fixes that are required for the >> drivers - such >> as for the eMac - it would be nice if we could assemble a list of these >> fixes so they >> can be integrated into the Debian packages later. The fixes should, of >> course, get >> upstreamed whereever possible. > > I hit this problem about two weeks ago after installing Debian 8.1 on > a PowerMac G5: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19722/debian-ppc-on-powermac-g5-boots-to-blank-screen. > > I did not try to troubleshoot it because I had no screen and no SSH. > The machine was effectively unaccessible to me. If SSH would have > worked out of the box, then I could have gotten in and tried some > things.
SSH can be enabled from the installer by choosing the "SSH Server" option in taskel during installation. > Maybe one lesson to learn is, provide a working SSH after an > installation. I don't recall if the installer had a step for enabling > SSH. It does. > After the Debian 8.1 problem I tried to move on to your FEB 02 2021 build. You won't be able to install on a PowerMac at the moment. I will have to fix GRUB installation first which I will continue to work on next week during my vacation. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
