Re: Unable to log in to iMac G4, graphical login workaround?
Dear Roger, What I would try is appending "single" to the "Linux" option at the second stage yaboot prompt. Peter On 30/09/15 07:33 PM, Roger Harkavy wrote: I originally posted this on the Debian user forums but I was directed to this mailing list. Hopefully I can give you enough information for some guidance on troubleshooting this. I have an iMac G4 "desk lamp," 512k of RAM, 200 GB HD, I believe the processor is a 7450. I downloaded the Debian Jessie netboot powerpc "mini.iso" image from here and burned it to a CD: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/ Installation seemed to go smoothly, no errors, and I selected MATE as the desktop choice during install. The only other option I selected was the "additional desktop software" (sorry, do not remember the exact text). However, after installation, when it boots, one of the last messages you see is: [FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. Last line is something along the lines of: fb: switching to nouveaufb from OFfb NVDA,NVMac And then the text starts dissolving, and the entire screen cycles through different colors. I presume it is sitting at the graphical login prompt but it's not displaying correctly. Based on some Google searches, it seems like I should be able to resolve this by editing /etc/modules using nano from a command prompt but I can't get to that point. After the machine starts cycling through the colors, I press ctrl-alt-F1 through ctrl-alt-F12. If there is a command prompt being offered, I can't see it. I also tried different yaboot options I found in searches that were supposed to avoid using the video driver. Unfortunately these didn't work either, but maybe I'm not choosing the right ones. How do I get the machine to boot straight to a regular text login instead of the X-based one? Also, this machine worked fine running Mac OS X this morning (partition was deleted during the install process), so I don't think it's the hardware. Please let me know what I can do. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
Re: debian base system on mac G5 - what next?
Dear Jonni, It should be as straightforward as # apt-get install xfce4 apt (and its cousin, aptitude) handles all dependencies automatically. Ordinarily, the CD is excluded as a package source during the install - presumably, you want to use the CD to listen to CDs or watch DVDs or what have you after you've installed debian. To include it, you would have to both uncomment the cdrom line in /etc/apt/sources.list and then run # apt-get update to let the package system scan it. On 19/06/15 03:58 PM, Jonni O'Gorman wrote: HI, using debian-8.1.0-powerpc-xfce-CD-1.iso I managed to get debian 8.1 installed on macG5 today after 3 attempts - 1) I ran into a problem the first time round when trying to install more software - I chose all 3 options provided by the installer ie.Debian Destop environment, xfce and system utilities - half way through it ran into a problem reading from the disk so I had to reboot 2) I entered rescue at the boot prompt and started form there but there was obviously a fault with the CD so I burned a new copy, got the base system installed, installed yaboot and rebooted but my username/passwords didn't work so again I rebooted 3) I entered install again at the boot prompt and installed the base system -skipped installing any extra software, installed yaboot and now I have a working base system I'd like to install xfce which is on the CD how can I easily intall packages from the CD, dpkg? what about dependencies? jonny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5584ac61.6060...@shaw.ca
Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware
Frank, At the prompt, type: root@dsl:/home/frank# nano /etc/apt/sources.list The text editor nano has keyboard shortcuts listed at the bottom of the screen; the ^ character means Control key, so ^O means control o. Arrow keys work as expected. When you're done, ^X exits, after asking you to save changes or not. On 16/09/13 03:59 PM, frank wrote: Hi guys can someone teach me please how to add to /etc/apt/sources.list: is this done in terminal?, i type this in the terminal and get this. root@dsl:/home/frank# /etc/apt/sources.list: bash: /etc/apt/sources.list:: No such file or directory root@dsl:/home/frank# Add to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports main Then do: apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-whatever-makes-sense Options are: llinux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-powerpc - Linux 3.2 for uniprocessor 32-bit PowerPC linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-powerpc-smp - Linux 3.2 for multiprocessor 32-bit PowerPC linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-powerpc64 - Linux 3.2 for 64-bit PowerPC -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Upgrading-Squeeze-to-Wheezy-on-Bubba-Two-hardware-tp2952111p3055479.html Sent from the debian-powerpc mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52379703.7010...@shaw.ca
Installation: xserve G4 with broken CD drive
Hello all, I'm trying to get squeeze up and running on an xserve G4 with a broken CD drive. It doesn't seem to want to boot from an extrnal firewire CD, but will boot OSX from an iBook set in target mode. Oddly, it won't boot from a CD in said iBook. Things tried so far: Put the Xserve in target mode, install wheezy onto it via debootstrap (plus a kernel), edited fstab and so on, ran ybin, unmounted and rebooted. It gots to yaboot stage 1 OK, but when I press 'l', a blue folder pops up in the middle of the screen with the icon alternating between a question mark and the happymac logo. Eventually I got the bright idea of reading the ybin man page, and realized that the iBook's Open Firmware path to the xserve's ultra0 drive in while target mode is very different from the xserve's idea of its own drive when booting normally. It would seem fair to say that ofpath is 'failing', thus the necesity of specifying it explicitly in the ybin command. I figured out the appropriate values by booting the xserve into open firmware, corrected yaboot.conf, and ran ybin with all options specified. Same result. Then I realized that in target mode, the xserve's drive is called /dev/sda by the ibook, but to itself when booting, it's /dev/hda, so I dug into openfirmware yet again to grab the self-referred drive names, but with the same result. Is my approach valid? Have I made some not-so-obvious mistake in the config or ybin, or should I just give up and track down a replacement CD drive? Peter Rooney - # # yaboot.conf used: boot=/pci@f200/ata-6@0/disk@0:2 ofboot=/pci@f200/ata-6@0/disk@0:2 device=/pci@f200/ata-6@0/disk@0: partition=3 root=/pci@f200/ata-6@0/disk@0:3 timeout=120 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot enablecdboot image=/boot/vmlinux-3.2.0-4-powerpc-smp label=Linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-powerpc-smp image=/boot/vmlinux.old label=old read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old # # ybin command used: ybin -b /dev/sda2 --ofboot /pci@f2/AppleKiwi@15/ata-6@0/disk@0 --config /mnt/etc/yaboot.conf --nonvram -v # # partition layout of xserve (in target mode) as seen by iBook (debian squeeze): /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/sda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 theroot 52428800 @ 1664 ( 25.0G) Linux native /dev/sda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 8388608 @ 52430464 ( 4.0G) Linux swap /dev/sda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 thehome 56412336 @ 60819072 ( 26.9G) Linux native Block size=512, Number of Blocks=117231408 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518c1185.2070...@shaw.ca
Re: garbled text on console after halting X [was: Re: All Fonts White]
I have no idea what causes it, asided from X being halted. I have no idea which package to file a bug against - but I've seen it happen with every kind of video configuration, including the built in chaos-control-framebuffer on a 7600. Is it an X problem? is it a framebuffer problem? is it a console problem? a font problem? The only workaround I've found in the last decade is, restart X or never start it in the first place (because everything is fine before X starts). Peter Rooney On 02/23/13 13:12, Rick Thomas wrote: On Feb 23, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Dan DeVoto wrote: One caveat, when you halt X your console's text might become garbled, so you'll have to type blind. This appears to be a Debian bug. I've noticed that. Does anyone know what causes it? Does anyone have a fix? Has anyone filed a bugreport? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51293649.8060...@shaw.ca
Re: debian on iBook G4
I too have found this bug, and it slays me that I cannot find a way to accurately phrase the problem, or guess what exactly is the software responsible for the bug. I'm certain that it's not that the virtual console needs a window manager running to be readable, because during bootup there is a significant time after initial console font switching and before the window manager stops where the text is readable. Peter Rooney On 01/21/13 13:17, ruben wrote: [ snip ] I'm using the software rasterizer. Related to that, I also noticed that the terminals become unreadable whenever I shutdown the display manager... and become readable again as soon as I start a display manager.. any tips on that? I don't know if this is important, but I use lightdm as a display manager and i3wm as a window manager. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50fde684.30...@shaw.ca
Re: Left handed mouse pointers
Dear Kristen, The problem is not porting to powerpc - the package is architecture independent. It is that the package is not yet available in the stable branch. Peter Rooney On 27/05/12 02:40 PM, Kristen R wrote: List, I use my trackball on the left side of the keyboard. And all the mouse pointers are left pointing. I'm sure I'm not the only lefty using Debian on PowerPC, so I am seeking right pointing mouse cursors. I found via the web that there is a comixcursors-lefthanded package that should have right hand pointing cursors. But using apt-get or aptitude, nothing is found. I take it that this package has not been built for PowerPC's? Any ideas? Kristen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fc2a68a.1040...@shaw.ca
Re: newest linux-image-3.0.0-1 doesn't recognize HD
That's Weird. I had been under the impression that the IDE interfaces are now logically presented as SCSI devices, so that 'Hard Drive A' becomes 'Scsi Device A' On 10/10/11 06:49 AM, James Tappin wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:57:51 -0400 Milan Kupcevicmi...@physics.harvard.edu wrote: MK When you get the shell try to type MK MK modprobe pata_macio MK MK then see if you have new stuff in /dev/ MK MK At least one ATA controller should work with this module. If you are MK lucky and your HD is connected to this controller then press ctrl+D MK and it will boot fine. Then do this: MK MKecho pata_macio /etc/initramfs-tools/modules MKupdate-initramfs -u MK MK Otherwise you will have to figure out which ATA controller you have MK in your machine and then determine which driver module will run it. That worked on my G3 iBook, but I also needed to change /dev/hda? - /dev/sda? in /etc/fstab to get /home to mount. Rather curiously, the root partition did mount as /dev/hda3, even though there was no hda3 in /dev (must be something at a lower level). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e9324fd.9090...@shaw.ca
Re: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound
Some years back, someone described debian on powerpc as a continuous IQ test. To which I now add, it comes complete with an entrance exam. On 11/03/11 12:39 PM, Risto Suominen wrote: Isn't this just like playing Whac-A-Mole? :) Yeah, and many people enjoy playing games... Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d7ae1d3.1020...@shaw.ca
