Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-10-08 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, 2024-10-08 at 12:11:11 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I assume the new kernel works fine on your PowerBook G4 so far? It does - I didn't give it thorough testing yet, but it boots without any hiccups. I spotted some BT complaint which likely is unrelated. Now I've got to find o

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-10-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Tue, 2024-10-08 at 12:04 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > The reason for this failure is the bug #1076564 [1]. > > I had guessed that (I even have the bug page open) but that one seems to be > somewhat spurious ... in any case, the new kernel made it, so for now I'm > happy I assume the ne

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-10-08 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, 2024-10-08 at 12:01:04 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Tue, 2024-10-08 at 11:55 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 15:38:51 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > As I said in my second mail, please just boot into 6.3.0-1 which is shown > > > in th

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-10-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Tue, 2024-10-08 at 11:55 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 15:38:51 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > As I said in my second mail, please just boot into 6.3.0-1 which is shown > > in the Advanced Options menu of GRUB. You can then install 6.11.x from > > experimen

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-10-08 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 15:38:51 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > As I said in my second mail, please just boot into 6.3.0-1 which is shown > in the Advanced Options menu of GRUB. You can then install 6.11.x from > experimental where this issue has been fixed - once the kernel package has >

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-26 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 13:09:00 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote: > FWIW on most of my machines "boot ud:,\\yaboot" will boot from USB, > but not all of them. > > On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 12:47, Steffen Grunewald > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 12:42:02 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > > > > There ar

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-26 Thread Ed Robbins
FWIW on most of my machines "boot ud:,\\yaboot" will boot from USB, but not all of them. On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 12:47, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 12:42:02 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > > > There are hints in some forum threads that the A1095 indeed may be one of > > >

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-26 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 12:42:02 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > > There are hints in some forum threads that the A1095 indeed may be one of > > few (perhaps the only?) G4 models that cannot boot from USB. > > BootROM version is 4.8.6f0, fwiw. > > That's frustrating. Can you confirm which partition

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-24 Thread Mike
Yo! I'm lost trying to make mental notes of my actual notes, but im om it and wont give 'much rest' till im halfway there, my best suggestion is to use OpenFirmware 'truckery' and boot grub to boot the proper ISO or env? On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, 13:42 Mark Cave-Ayland, wrote: > On 24/09/2024 10:21,

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 24/09/2024 10:21, Steffen Grunewald wrote: On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 09:43:39 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: FWIW I did my last install on a G4 Mac Mini using a USB stick running Adrian's latest (at the time) image. I used dd to copy the netinst image to a USB stick, used "show-devs" to locate

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-24 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 09:43:39 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > > FWIW I did my last install on a G4 Mac Mini using a USB stick running > Adrian's latest (at the time) image. I used dd to copy the netinst image to > a USB stick, used "show-devs" to locate the USB drive, and then tweaked the > cd a

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 24/09/2024 09:21, Steffen Grunewald wrote: Hi Efraim, On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 10:25:56 +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: I know the powerbook and ibook are different machines, but I was able to boot my ibook off a USB stick. I'll drop the link here in case it does actually work for you. https://

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-24 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Hi Efraim, On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 10:25:56 +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > I know the powerbook and ibook are different machines, but I was able to > boot my ibook off a USB stick. I'll drop the link here in case it does > actually work for you. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/10/

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-24 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 03:26:30PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:52:38 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > > 11.0.0 "Sid" Unofficial powerpc NETINST 20211006-11:28 > > > > That image is quite old. > > It must have served a purpose a whi

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 03:26:30PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:52:38 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > > 11.0.0 "Sid" Unofficial powerpc NETINST 20211006-11:28 > > > > That image is quite old. > > It must have served a purpose a whi

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 15:31 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 15:26:30 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > after "You can't boot a kdump kernel from OF!". > > > > Whatever that asks me to do next... > > Hm, #1079755i (and #1079725). I should have remembered this. > I guess a

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-23 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 15:26:30 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > after "You can't boot a kdump kernel from OF!". > > Whatever that asks me to do next... Hm, #1079755i (and #1079725). I should have remembered this. I guess a reasonable workaround would be to use the kernel from the CD? - S

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-23 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Hi Adrian, On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:52:38 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > 11.0.0 "Sid" Unofficial powerpc NETINST 20211006-11:28 > > That image is quite old. It must have served a purpose a while ago, and this PowerBook is the only ARM device around, AFAICT. Hm. I'm pretty sure

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:52 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:13 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > I'm sorry I've got to chime in, but I'm currently lost trying to install > > Debian on a resuscitated PowerBook G4 - which got a new disk during the > > process (M.2

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Steffen, On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:13 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > I'm sorry I've got to chime in, but I'm currently lost trying to install > Debian on a resuscitated PowerBook G4 - which got a new disk during the > process (M.2 128 GB "disk" in M.2-to-44-pin-IDE adapter) as the old one > m

Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

2024-09-23 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Hi all, I'm sorry I've got to chime in, but I'm currently lost trying to install Debian on a resuscitated PowerBook G4 - which got a new disk during the process (M.2 128 GB "disk" in M.2-to-44-pin-IDE adapter) as the old one must have been broken and removed... I've started from CD, the image adv