On 6/10/21 12:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 6/10/21 2:08 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
The report and its recommendations may provide a means
to pierce the veil of closed platforms, like closed-sourced firmware.
It seems unlikely to me that we will ever see a "Right to Repair" for
On 3/5/21 6:19 AM, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
> Could someone send me a picture of the G3 beige model ?
>
There are four different models of G3 "Beige." They are: Desktop, Mini
Tower, Server (also Mini Tower shaped) and finally All-in-One.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_G3
On 2020-04-12 14:11, Zlatan Todorić wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering are people aware of the effort to create a POWER based
> laptop with open schematics.
>
> https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/campaigns/donation-campaign-for-pcb-design-of-the-powerpc-notebook-motherboard/
>
> I think it is quite
On 12/19/18 12:06 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
[...]
>
> I see that you patched ofpath in the past. Could you give me some
> reference materials on where you found out those convention ? It seems
> that grub-ofpathname has always lived happily with:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/grub-ofpathname /dev/sda2
>
On 12/18/18 10:20 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
[...]
>
> Turns out the patch will be more difficult than I thought. The shell
> script ofpathname is written for bash. It bails out with error when
> using dash. So I suspect this is a no-go for using ofpathname during
> installation.
>
As
On 10/26/2017 08:06 AM, Richard Kuenz wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> I have one computer where the cd drive is faulty so id like to boot off
> firwire drvi externally. It is a powermac g5.
>
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/ch05s01.html.en#boot-cd
0 > boot
On 09/30/2017 02:05 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 09/30/2017 11:40 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote:> What's OFFS?
> I was talking about the OpenFirmware partition and I used the terminology
> from the grub-installer source code [1]. I haven't looked into the
> documentation
> yet, but I
On 09/29/2017 03:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 09/29/2017 08:50 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> (...)
>> To be able to load the yaboot config file from the partition that holds the
>> root FS,
>> yaboot needs to know which partition to use. Hence I assume there has to
>> be an
On 09/26/2017 02:40 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Ok, so I guess the first step would be to patch partman-auto to increase
> the size of the bootloader partition for all sub-architectures.
As for the required size we should probably consult wit Grub
maintainers. I guess it depends on
Hi Rick and Adrian,
As I've dealt with these things many years ago I'll just try to brain
dump stuff that I still remember.
On 09/26/2017 09:00 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 09/26/2017 11:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> But I'm not sure why we should invest time into
On 09/26/2017 09:47 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 09/26/2017 03:00 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> I'm still a bit undecided about the ext4 issue with Yaboot. I actually
>> would tend to always use the ext2 /boot partitions for all installations
>> and revert the work-around
On 09/20/2016 05:46 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 09/20/2016 11:16 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
>>- powerpc: No porter (RM blocker)
>
> I'd be happy to pick up powerpc to keep it for Stretch. I'm already
> maintaining powerpcspe which is very similar to powerpc.
>
Thank you Adrian
On 04/26/2016 05:53 AM, a...@vorsicht-bissig.de wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have been trying to resurrect my MacMini.
>
Is your internal CD/DVD broken?
People had success installing from an external firewire CD/DVD drive
and/or from a memory stick containing raw debian installer iso as is
On 04/19/2016 06:16 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Does anyone knows what happen to section:
>
> 4.3. Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting
>
> in the powerpc install guide ?
>
The Mac producer officially does not support USB booting on PowerPC
machines. While it is often possible to
On 04/05/2016 08:28 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:19:13AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> I was recently told by aurel32@d.o that ppc32 kernels do not run on a
>> ppc64 CPU. So if one wants to run a Debian kernel [1], we are pretty
>> much required to be running a
On 02/13/2016 03:02 PM, Klaus Becker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> someone offered me a Mac G4 with Debian 7 installed. It works, but I have no
> password, neither user nor root.
>
> The bootloader is yaboot.
>
> There is no CDROM on the machine.
>
Try to start Debian installer form an external firewire
On 09/23/2015 11:02 AM, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
> The /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-powerpc image isn't generated, because mkvmlinuz
> bails out with an error, when it is called through the hook-scripts in
> /etc/kernel/*.
> I think Apex and I had nailed down the error to the point, where mkvmlinuz
>
On 06/30/2015 05:56 AM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
[...]
You cant get nouveau working with your current kernel. Period. It
doesn't matter what kernel options or module options you pass,
nouveau with acceleration just doesn't currently work with a 64kb
pagesize kernel.
You are falling back to
On 06/16/2015 02:43 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:39:29PM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
[...]
I've just installed Debian 8.1 on my Pegasos II with no issues at all.
[...]
Which kernel are you running?
I gave up compiling my kernels for Pegasos around 3.2.0 when
On 06/15/2015 12:29 PM, aPEX wrote:
Hello,
I was a little bit to fast. The installation is working fine without a
problem using Debian 8.1.
But at the end no vmklinuz imgae is generated. Only the vmklinux files.
I hope you did not remove the Peg, I am so short before the goal. :-)
Hi
On 04/30/2015 01:07 PM, aPEX wrote:
Hello,
no one who can help? Debian 6.8 was still running fine…
I think if I will try Debian 8 I will have same problem like with 7.8?
I would try Debian 8 first.
M
Am 27.04.2015 um 20:27 schrieb aPEX a...@gmx.ch:
Hello all,
I was using a
On 04/27/2015 04:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have a dual processor G5 tower Mac that has the “wind tunnel”
problem.
Do you have this problem with the final Jessie release?
Milan
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On 07/22/2013 02:42 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:59:18PM +0400, Pavel Fedin wrote:
Hello, Milan.
22 июля 2013 г., 5:23:34, you wrote:
User did not let installer to create default partition layout but
manually created incorrect one, or installed on a previously created
Control: notfound -1 yaboot-installer/1.1.26
On 07/21/2013 04:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
Control: reassign -1 yaboot-installer 1.1.26
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 00:38 +0400, Pavel Fedin wrote:
[...]
So, it's not kernel's fault. It seems to be installer fault which
does not generate correct
Control: notfound 717511 yaboot-installer/1.1.26
On 07/21/2013 08:49 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 20:36 -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
Control: notfound -1 yaboot-installer/1.1.26
On 07/21/2013 04:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
Control: reassign -1 yaboot-installer 1.1.26
On 05/09/2013 05:13 PM, h...@shaw.ca wrote:
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
On 10/26/2012 02:47 PM, b...@riseup.net wrote:
Hello there,
I have been struggling to boot Debian-PPC from a new 2TB Baracuda HDD with
a Seagate GoFlex controller... FOR DAYS!
Add-on SCSI, SATA, and ATA controllers must have proper OpenFirmware
support to be able to boot an OpenFirmware
On 10/22/2012 10:57 PM, tsch...@nexgo.de wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinst : CD (external drive), root directory (first disk HFS+)
and TFTP
Image versions :
1.) debian-wheezy-DI-b3-powerpc-netinst.iso, and
2.a)
On 09/25/2012 05:15 PM, Richard Crane wrote:
I have a G5 with a bad internal DVD drive. I've attached an external
drive, and used it to create a 50GB free space partition, a 50GB Mac
partition, and install OS X.
- with OS X running, I can mount a Debian squeeze CD
On 08/29/2012 07:58 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just tried booting a PowerMac G4 with the Wheezy installer image
built on 20120826-03:23 (details of where I downloaded it from, etc
available on request).
The G4 is a 32-bit machine, but it
On 08/30/2012 03:00 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Thanks for the explanation. It helps me understand what's going on here.
What you say is, of course, technically correct. The problem I'm having
is that this is an about-face change from previous practice.
Previously, 32-bit was the default,
On 08/27/2012 12:33 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Gaudenz Steinlin dijo [Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 09:31:03PM +0200]:
...
I guess this is #683849. Can you try a daily image?
...
The bug you mention happens at a much later stage (at
partman-auto-lvm, my lockup happens just after localechooser),
although
On 08/04/2012 12:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:56:54PM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
This is a Debian installation ${MEDIA_TYPE},
built on ${BUILD_DATE}.
+
Enter one of the following options to begin:
-install 32-bit processor (G4 or earlier)
-install64 64
On 06/05/2012 08:23 AM, Christian Lynbech wrote:
I have an old Mac Mini G4 that I would like to install debian on, but I
am having some problems getting it to work.
The internal CD drive stopped working long ago, I have an external LaCie
FW drive but I canot get the installation to work from
On 01/27/2012 10:12 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
Hi folks
There is a package called mkvmlinuz in the archive. It is maintained by
the kernel team.
mkvmlinuz is only used on the powerpc architecture.
Does anyone know the current state of mkvmlinuz? Is it still needed?
Bastian
It is
On 09/05/2011 11:50 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
Is the info I gave you enough for you ?
It was not quite clear at the begining, but if loading pata-macio fixes
your issue, then you've had hit a known problem.
Currently, kernel in d-i is using pmac driver compiled-in. The latest
kernel
On 09/04/2011 10:58 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
I used the latest netboot image:
http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/powerpc/daily/powerpc/netboot/mini.iso
I tried to install a base system. Installation went fine, yaboot
installed ok too. At reboot I am thrown into a busybox shell. The error
On 08/22/2011 08:16 AM, Schneck Dennis CIS SDE wrote:
Hello,
I use: Debian 6 PPC 64bit on IBM Power7 (debian-6.0.2.1-powerpc-DVD-1.iso).
I try some information from different people, but ipv6 is still active.
Is I possible to disable it at boot with yaboot in the /etc/yaboot.conf ?
On 08/18/2011 09:04 AM, Gunther Furtado wrote:
Hi,
With the latest update, kernel doesn't recognize my HD (neither uuid
nor /dev/hdaX). When I boot into it, I get to an initramfs shell and
when I run
ls /dev/
there isn't anything that I could perceive as hd. I've read on the list
that
On 08/11/2011 12:16 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Does anybody know what's holding up getting this fix into the main-line
Debian PowerPC kernels?
Nothing. It will just take some time. Next kernel upload (3.0.0-2) will
replace ide_pmac with pata_macio.
Milan
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This problem is PowerMac specific. We have to compile in pata-macio
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Yaboot has to be fixed first to support pata-macio.
Milan
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On 04/19/2011 11:01 AM, Slackware wrote:
Download site doesn't list any smp iso's. Using xfce cd image.
Which distribution/version do you use? Where did you download this xfce
cd image from?
But if all I need is rebuild my own kernel with smp support it shouldn't be
a major problem.
On 04/05/2011 01:06 PM, Pat Wall wrote:
Hi All
I have a YDL PowerStation that I used with YDL 6.1/6.2 since I purchased
it from Fixstars. I have now decided to move to Debian Squeeze as YDL is
no longer supported.
On booting into X (gdm/gnome) colours appear to be inverted i.e. blue
On 03/01/2011 08:59 AM, Adrian Zaugg wrote:
Hello
I have partitioned my boot disk in a IBM Power 740 Express with cfdisk
(msdos disk labels) to have a PReP bootpartition first and a Linux
partition behind it. The system doesn't recognize this disk as a boot
disk, although I have activated
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On 02/24/2011 01:48 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
Meanwhile I managed to get 3D acceleration. It is not satisfying me:
Playing foobillard shows a blue colored pool table (instead of a
wooden one) and the balls are all looking blued. Playing on
Debian bugs #332227, #350372 and #352914 are reported after 'No hard
disks were found which have an Apple_Bootstrap partition' error which
is returned by yaboot-installer while installing on a VIOS virtual drive
in an IBM LPAR. Error message is in fact misleading. Lets discuss this
issue in bug
summary 332227 51
summary 350372 34
summary 352914 178
thanks
On 12/16/2010 02:44 AM, Frank Fegert wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:34:52PM -0500, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
At one point yaboot-installer code calls
/usr/lib/partconf/find-partitions --flag prep
which is supposed to return
On 12/15/2010 02:31 AM, Frank Fegert wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:43:03PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
Excerpts from Frank Fegert's message of Die Dez 14 19:34:12 +0100 2010:
i tried the unofficial-debian-squeeze-powerpc-netinst-1-yaboot-1.3.16.iso
on a p550 Power6+ LPAR,
On 12/15/2010 03:22 PM, Frank Fegert wrote:
Despite the All files in one partition. still the same error as before,
see attached log files.
Ok. I just tried to install [1] on Power IntelliStation 275. It
installs, reboots, and works fine.
At one point yaboot-installer code calls
On 12/14/2010 01:34 PM, Frank Fegert wrote:
i tried the unofficial-debian-squeeze-powerpc-netinst-1-yaboot-1.3.16.iso
on a p550 Power6+ LPAR, Microcode 01EL350_085_038, dual VIOS. The
install fails at Install yaboot on a hard disk with:
[!!] Install yaboot on a hard disk
No bootstrap
On 12/05/2010 03:14 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:
It's better. ROOT=UUID syntax works in yaboot.conf. But still I had to
edit it manually. See the attached log.
Thank you for feedback. I just added support for your controller to
ofpath. Please find new yaboot package and new install cd at [1].
On 12/04/2010 10:09 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:
I submitted an installation report for PowerMac G3 (BW) (Bug # 605900).
Risto
Did you try to install unofficial bug-fix-test cd from [1]? We would
appreciate feedback before we finally upload the fix. (Do not file
official installation reports
On 12/03/2010 06:29 AM, Xavier Grave wrote:
ReHi,
First of all, thanks to all people working around yaboot and powerpc
port (I can't help a lot except some test on power hardware :( ).
That said, back to the matter :
I have burn the debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso, booted
On 12/02/2010 06:20 AM, Gary Driggs wrote:
On Dec 1, 2010, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
The solution is almost production ready. Fully functional install cd with
fixes for #572869, #580455, #572925 and #603981 is created and already
successfully tested on many different Power and PowerPC machines
Steinlin a écrit :
Milan Kupcevic sent me a yaboot package for review today. I'll look
into it tomorrow. So your assumption that there is nothing going on is
simply wrong.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:17:01AM +0100, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Well, I didn't see any message from him here regarding
On 11/19/2010 04:09 AM, maximilian attems wrote:
oh fun, thought that linux-2.6 was fixed to autoload those modules.
Only i2c_powermac gets included/loaded without manual intervention. I
removed it from this hook.
-if [ -e /sys/bus/ps3_system_bus/ ]; then
-exit 0
-fi
On 10/14/2010 08:26 AM, xavier grave wrote:
On a power6 system I get the following problems :
- ehea.ko is missing (solved using an usb key)
- manual partman can't be used
- reboot under a 32 bits kernel
Are you installing in a LPAR or in IBM PowerVM configured logical
partition?
Fixing bug #572869: ofpath doesn't work in the absence of /proc/scsi/scsi
I will need volunteer help to collect more information about SAS, SATA
and SCSI hardware configurations on Power machines.
Please use recent beta or daily Debian powerpc install CD to boot your
machine.
On a POWER or
On 09/29/2010 12:44 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK... If I'm understanding this correctly, it means that NewWorld Mac's
can boot either from the on-board ATA or one of these OF-supporting SATA
controllers (possibly with some tweaks to ofpath to deal with any
peculiarities of the non-Apple
On 09/28/2010 07:26 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Well, even if you didn't mention it explicitly, it was listed in the
lspci dump since the beginning and nobody saw it until now. And one may
also find it disturbing that a piece of software doesn't work with an
addon card on a machine that has free
On 09/17/2010 04:05 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Hopefully, now I can manage some Debian time, so I will update,
say this week, the package and any bits of d-i necessary for it
to work. Here, I am mainly thinking about RAID, LVM, and crypto
installations in yaboot-installer, as upstream did some
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