On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 1:42 PM Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > > So I am trying the netinst iso from a USB key, on a used PowerMac7,2 > from a yard sale (system was sold without disk). All I can get is the > rescue prompt. All other installs seems to fail (eventually the system > start the fan quite loudly). > > Message is: > > Invalid memory access at %SRR0: 00000000.0200ba34 %SRR1: 90000000.00003030 > Apple PowerMac7,2 5.1.4f0 BootROM built on 11/21/03 at 17:41:40
Turns out this is a known issue with bad RAM. Remove all of them, put back in only a pair, now I can boot a kernel ! ref: https://forum.macbidouille.com/index.php?showtopic=186616 Sorry for the noise > > Doing a quick google search reveal: > > * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=182180 > > Comments/Suggestions ?