Re: Unexpected reboot after powerpc install

2021-02-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/9/21 10:49 AM, john doe wrote: > Actually, at the reboot step, you need to "Switch to another console". Well, you can just select "Go back" and you're in the main menu from where you can also execute a shell. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer -

Re: Unexpected reboot after powerpc install

2021-02-09 Thread john doe
On 2/9/2021 10:27 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Hi Everyone, I was trying to follow John Paul Adrian Glaubitz instructions for installing Debian 10 on a PowerMac G5. The instructions are at https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/02/msg00011.html. The instructions say to forgo the reboot after

Unexpected reboot after powerpc install

2021-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I was trying to follow John Paul Adrian Glaubitz instructions for installing Debian 10 on a PowerMac G5. The instructions are at https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/02/msg00011.html. The instructions say to forgo the reboot after installation and perform some extra steps.

Bug#605774: marked as done (debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module for powerpc install)

2011-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:41:17 -0400 with message-id 4e6f6b8d.3090...@physics.harvard.edu and subject line Re: Bug#605774: debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module for powerpc install has caused the Debian Bug report #605774, regarding debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module

Bug#605774: debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module for powerpc install

2010-12-03 Thread xavier
Package: debian-installer Version: debian-installer Severity: important Using debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso (090242bbe35c6108ca4f3b8a963e02cd) in order to install on a Power6 IBM machine (Machine type-model: 8203-E4A) kernel loads and boot. Then during network hardware detection,

Bug#605774: debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module for powerpc install

2010-12-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 605774 kernel-wedge thanks Quoting xavier (xavier.gr...@ipno.in2p3.fr): Package: debian-installer Version: debian-installer Severity: important Using debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso (090242bbe35c6108ca4f3b8a963e02cd) in order to install on a Power6 IBM machine

Processed: Re: Bug#605774: debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module for powerpc install

2010-12-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 605774 kernel-wedge Bug #605774 [debian-installer] debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module for powerpc install Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'kernel-wedge'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions debian-installer

Bug#605774: debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module for powerpc install

2010-12-03 Thread Milan Kupcevic
tags 605774 pending thanks Ehea module added to linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6. Pending upload. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Processed: Re: Bug#605774: debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module for powerpc install

2010-12-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 605774 pending Bug #605774 [kernel-wedge] debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module for powerpc install Added tag(s) pending. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 605774: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi

Bug#272967: marked as done (NewWorld Blue White Mac Powerpc install -- problems with firewire and aec62xx driver.)

2010-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:57:40 + with message-id e1otbn2-00043r...@ravel.debian.org and subject line Closing old installation report #272967 has caused the Debian Bug report #272967, regarding NewWorld Blue White Mac Powerpc install -- problems with firewire and aec62xx driver

Bug#301505: marked as done (installation: PowerPC install failure)

2010-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:57:56 + with message-id e1otbni-0004zw...@ravel.debian.org and subject line Closing old installation report #301505 has caused the Debian Bug report #301505, regarding installation: PowerPC install failure to be marked as done. This means that you claim

Custom powerpc install cd

2007-06-13 Thread Jasper Mackenzie
Good Day, I am trying to make a custom install cd for a few of my friends who have older powerbooks. Using simple-cdd seemes to be the obvious answer. Unfortunatley this only seems to build etch cd's and seems tailored to i386 systems. So is there a 'profile' or something similar that would

Re: Custom powerpc install cd

2007-06-13 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Jasper Mackenzie wrote: Good Day, I am trying to make a custom install cd for a few of my friends who have older powerbooks. Using simple-cdd seemes to be the obvious answer. Unfortunatley this only seems to build etch cd's and seems tailored to i386 systems. So is there a 'profile' or

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:58:16PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:06:52PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Dann, we used to have miboot-floppies for sarge/powerpc somewhere on people.debian.org/~luther/ but it seems they are gone. Since these floppies in etch are

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Dann, On Thursday 14 December 2006 23:58, you wrote: Did you do the sarge 3.1r4 rebuild of d-i for powerpc? Or do you know who did? It looks like this was autobuilt: Ah, ok. Frans: can we update debian-installer on a single arch, perhaps via binNMU, like this? No, we can't update

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Dann, we used to have miboot-floppies for sarge/powerpc somewhere on people.debian.org/~luther/ but it seems they are gone. Since these floppies in etch are also sometimes not working and older hardware might not be supported by newer kernels, too - it would be very good to have them again.

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-14 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:06:52PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Dann, we used to have miboot-floppies for sarge/powerpc somewhere on people.debian.org/~luther/ but it seems they are gone. Since these floppies in etch are also sometimes not working and older hardware might not be

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:33:42AM -0200, Lucas Rossi wrote: Hi folks! Sven told me to post this here on debian-boot, so... I'm trying to install Debian sarge in a Power Macintosh 8500/150 (Old World). The problem is that the newest floppy disks aren't booting. When I use the

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-13 Thread Lucas Rossi
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/floppy Thank you Citando Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:33:42AM -0200, Lucas Rossi wrote:    Hi folks!    Sven told me to post this here on debian-boot, so...    I'm

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:06:30AM -0200, Lucas Rossi wrote: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/floppy Well, since miboot is not free (yet), it was not included in the sarge official builds. Your best guess is to rebuild the

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-13 Thread Lucas Rossi
Thank you very much!! I'll try it as soon as I can and let you know if it worked... =) Citando Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:06:30AM -0200, Lucas Rossi wrote:

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:31:49AM -0200, Lucas Rossi wrote:    Hi folks!    I'm trying to install Debian sarge in a Power Macintosh 8500/150 (Old World). The problem is that the newest floppy disks aren't booting. When I use the image boot.img the pc doesn't accept the disk and spit it

Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-12 Thread Lucas Rossi
Hi folks! Sven told me to post this here on debian-boot, so... I'm trying to install Debian sarge in a Power Macintosh 8500/150 (Old World). The problem is that the newest floppy disks aren't booting. When I use the image boot.img the pc doesn't accept the disk and spit it out. So I

Bug#274476: marked as done (d-i rc2 powerpc install on G4)

2004-10-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 3 Oct 2004 08:30:39 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#274476: d-i rc2 powerpc install on G4 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now

Re: Bug#274476: d-i rc2 powerpc install on G4

2004-10-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/10/04 02:26), Clive Menzies wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 1 Oct 04 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/pre-rc2/ uname -a: Linux Apollo 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Tue Sep 14 00:15:52 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux Date: 2Oct04 00:50 BST

Fwd: Re: Bug#274476: d-i rc2 powerpc install on G4

2004-10-02 Thread Clive Menzies
- Forwarded message from Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:47:53 +0100 Subject: Re: Bug#274476: d-i rc2 powerpc install on G4 On (02/10/04 02:26), Clive Menzies wrote: Package: installation

Bug#274476: d-i rc2 powerpc install on G4

2004-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 1 Oct 04 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/pre-rc2/ uname -a: Linux Apollo 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Tue Sep 14 00:15:52 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux Date: 2Oct04 00:50 BST (UK) Method: Net install Boot off CD

NewWorld Blue White Mac Powerpc install -- problems with firewire and aec62xx driver.

2004-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the image Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current Name Last modified Size Description

Bug#272967: Acknowledgement (NewWorld Blue White Mac Powerpc install -- problems with firewire and aec62xx driver.)

2004-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
I forgot to add: Note 5: Several times during the installation, I got an error message telling me that some modules were not loaded because they could not be found: ide-mod, ide-probe-mod, ide-detect, ide-generic Note 6: I installed the same netinst CD on my beige G3 tower, using BootX

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:41:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:22:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Any ideas why these daily builds are broken every day? I just tried the 2.4

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Rick Thomas
Sven Luther wrote: the .coff booting is probably the only free alternative, but i am told requesting a debian oldworld user to get the serial console working is not acceptable. Only unacceptable in the sense that Open Firmware is dramatically different between machine types. Apple

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Joshua Kwan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas wrote: | I noticed that near the end, the script does an e2fsck of the | root.img file. This seems to indicate that the image is completely | hosed, and e2fsck responds by (essentially) resetting it to an empty | ext2 filesystem. This

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:48:25PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas wrote: | I noticed that near the end, the script does an e2fsck of the | root.img file. This seems to indicate that the image is completely | hosed, and e2fsck responds

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Joshua Kwan
Sven Luther wrote: Oh, nice, so this will fix the floppies by tomorrow all by themselves ? Unless there's some other problem with the d-i stuff involved, yes, I should think. And of course you have to update your build environment from unstable. -- Joshua Kwan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:24:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:41:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: I noticed that near the end, the script does an e2fsck of the root.img file. This seems to indicate that the image is completely hosed, and e2fsck responds by

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:44:47AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Oh, nice, so this will fix the floppies by tomorrow all by themselves ? Unless there's some other problem with the d-i stuff involved, yes, I should think. And of course you have to update your build environment

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay...so what do I do with the initrd.gz file? I don't have a clue. I can't use it as a ramdisk...is there a ramdisk that I'd use? BootX, from the report of others, never seen it myself, has support for specifying both a kernel (the

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:58:43AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay...so what do I do with the initrd.gz file? I don't have a clue. I can't use it as a ramdisk...is there a ramdisk that I'd use? BootX, from the report of others,

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Hires wrote: Then that's horribly broken. I tried to use the initrd.gz file just like it is as a ramdisk, and I got a panic for no suitable filesystem. I tried it ungzipped, and same thing... Perhaps you need to pass a ramdisk_size=appropriatly large value to the kernel? -- see shy

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 August 2004 14:42, Joey Hess wrote: Russell Hires wrote: Then that's horribly broken. I tried to use the initrd.gz file just like it is as a ramdisk, and I got a panic for no suitable filesystem. I tried it ungzipped, and same

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Hires wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 August 2004 14:42, Joey Hess wrote: Russell Hires wrote: Then that's horribly broken. I tried to use the initrd.gz file just like it is as a ramdisk, and I got a panic for no suitable filesystem. I tried

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 19:27, Joey Hess wrote: Russell Hires wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 August 2004 14:42, Joey Hess wrote: Russell Hires wrote: Then that's horribly broken. I tried to use the initrd.gz file just like it is as a ramdisk,

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:06:42AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all... I just would like to say that I'm annoyed with the way that you have the installer instructions set up: they refer to woody stuff rather than the updated

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:11:49AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: o Using the miboot floppies from : 2.6 : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy (currently broken) 2.4 : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy Has anyone been

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are actually three ways to boot the oldworld pmacs : o Using BootX you just need the vmlinux and initrd.gz from : 2.6 : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/ 2.4 :

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:11:49AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: o Using the miboot floppies from : 2.6 : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy (currently broken) 2.4 :

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:22:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:11:49AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: o Using the miboot floppies from : 2.6 :

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:17:43PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are actually three ways to boot the oldworld pmacs : o Using BootX you just need the vmlinux and initrd.gz from : 2.6 :

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:22:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Any ideas why these daily builds are broken every day? I just tried the 2.4 floppy images. What Wouter says is correct. I'm going to go over the

PowerPC Install

2004-08-24 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all... I just would like to say that I'm annoyed with the way that you have the installer instructions set up: they refer to woody stuff rather than the updated information on sarge. Also...I'm annoyed that I can't figure out a way to put

Bug#261450: MSDOS tools on the powerpc install CD?

2004-07-25 Thread Rick_Thomas
Package: installation-reports:[powerpc][20040724] OldWorld PowerMac INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the image sid_d-i/powerpc/20040724/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso Comments/Problems: Is it really necessary for the powerpc businesscard CD

Processed: Re: Bug#261450: MSDOS tools on the powerpc install CD?

2004-07-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 261450 debian-cd Bug#261450: MSDOS tools on the powerpc install CD? Warning: Unknown package 'powerpc' Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports:[powerpc][20040724]' to `debian-cd'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me

Bug#261450: MSDOS tools on the powerpc install CD?

2004-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
reassign 261450 debian-cd thanks On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:56:16PM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: Package: installation-reports:[powerpc][20040724] (Please don't put extra junk in the Package: line; just installation-reports is fine. The extra junk causes the bug to have to be recategorized

PowerPC install on a powerbook G4

2004-05-24 Thread Lakin Wecker
Well I just tried the sid_d-i install images for today, May 24, 2004, and I must say that I am impressed, and grateful to all the folks who have been donating their time to this project. This time it worked for everything except one thing: I had to drop to a shell and udpkg -i dhcp package.

Bug#244367: PowerPC install from boot floppy mostly successful - still some problems.

2004-04-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:10:21AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: Matt, I retrieved the latest daily build OldWorld powerpc floppy images from: http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/current/powerpc-small/floppy/

Bug#244367: PowerPC install from boot floppy mostly successful - still some problems.

2004-04-19 Thread Matt Kraai
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:04:13AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: 1) It automatically ejected the boot floppy when asking for the root floppy. Thanks for that, whoever put that patch in. However, when calling for the drivers floppy, it did not eject the root floppy. I had to use the paper-clip

Bug#244367: PowerPC install from boot floppy mostly successful - still some problems.

2004-04-19 Thread Rick Thomas
I'll give it a try this evening (US/Eastern time zone) Enjoy! Rick Matt Kraai wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:04:13AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: 1) It automatically ejected the boot floppy when asking for the root floppy. Thanks for that, whoever put that patch in. However, when

Bug#244367: PowerPC install from boot floppy mostly successful - still some problems.

2004-04-19 Thread Rick_Thomas
Matt, I retrieved the latest daily build OldWorld powerpc floppy images from: http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/current/powerpc-small/floppy/ and wrote them

Bug#244367: PowerPC install from boot floppy mostly successful - still some problems.

2004-04-18 Thread Rick_Thomas
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: April 17, 1004 - boot floppy images from ftp://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/current/powerpc-small/floppy uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.25-powerpc #1 ven mar 19 19:29:26 CET 2004 ppc

Failed PowerPC install

2003-10-31 Thread Joe Drew
I recently tried installing Sarge via the netinst image (file date 2003-10-08) on my 900 MHz G3 iBook. Some comments: 1) When I wasn't connected to the network, dhcp took a long time to time out. In the meantime, nothing was displayed on the screen. This should be changed: at least a message

Re: powerpc install

2001-08-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:20:46AM -0400, Mikhail Kruk wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/powerpc/install.en.html#contents In particular: http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/powerpc/ch-init-config.en.html#s7.17 It seems from reading this that the line nvsetenv `ofpath