Re: apt-get update and upgrade results in unbootable G5

2019-06-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Dennis! On 6/20/19 2:50 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Probably not news. > (...) > Anyways a reboot simply results in ye blinking Apple icon of desperation > wherein no OS could be found.  So that was the end of that. I haven't had the time yet to continue working on the issues with

Re: apt-get update and upgrade results in unbootable G5

2019-06-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Dennis, during the package upgrade of GRUB, `grub-install` uses `ofpathname` to determine the OF path of the device that holds the GRUB files needed for booting and uses `nvsetenv` to write it to the NVRAM. Unfortunately `ofpathname` doesn't return a working OF path on Power Macs. To fix that

apt-get update and upgrade results in unbootable G5

2019-06-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
Probably not news. Saw this ... ppc64# ppc64# uname -a Linux hydra 5.0.11-genunix #1 SMP Fri May 3 21:37:21 UTC 2019 ppc64 GNU/Linux ppc64# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease [55.3 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid/main all