On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> >> A third possibilty, though remote, is that the iso was improperly built. >> I'll verify that myself and get back to you. >> > > I downloaded and burned the iso. I verified the MD5 and compared the burned > CD with the ISO. All went well. Then I booted it on my own Mac mini G4. > It booted fine (I used the "C" hold-down method) and started the installer. > I didn't run any further, because I didn't want to mess up my MacOS-X > machine, but it at least booted. > > So there's no problem with the iso file itself.
Thanks ! Here is what I did on my amd64 box: $ wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.5/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-505-powerpc-netinst.iso $ md5sum debian-505-powerpc-netinst.iso 86268f3a463460828ec12831d6520df7 debian-505-powerpc-netinst.iso $ cmp /dev/cdrom debian-505-powerpc-netinst.iso $ echo $? 0 I would be tempted to say my cdrom was burned ok. To get into more details see (*). In summary: - DVD 1 Tiger 10.4 -> I can boot using C -> I can boot using Option -> I can boot using Option+Command+o+f - Debian 5.0.5 CD-RW -> I can NOT boot using C -> I can NOT boot using Option -> I can NOT boot using Option+Command+o+f I also tried burning the image on two CD-R, but cmp would failed everytime with: $ cmp /dev/cdrom debian-505-powerpc-netinst.iso cmp: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error However both isovfy and isoinfo were happy with the CD-R Thanks for any further advices, -- Mathieu Ps: (*) $ isoinfo -d -i=/dev/cdrom CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format System id: LINUX Volume id: Debian 5.0.5 ppc Bin-1 Volume set id: Publisher id: Data preparer id: Application id: GENISOIMAGE ISO 9660/HFS FILESYSTEM CREATOR (C) 1993 E.YOUNGDALE (C) 1997-2006 J.PEARSON/J.SCHILLING (C) 2006-2007 CDRKIT TEAM Copyright File id: Abstract File id: Bibliographic File id: Volume set size is: 1 Volume set sequence number is: 1 Logical block size is: 2048 Volume size is: 102188 NO Joliet present Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found k3b reveals this info about the cdrom (imation cd-rw 80min): /dev/sr0: ATIP capacity: 79:57:74 (K3bDevice::Device) READ CAPACITY: 22:42:37 other capacity: 79:57:74 DiskInfo: Mediatype: CD-RW Current Profile: CD-RW Disk state: complete Empty: 0 Rewritable: 1 Appendable: 0 Sessions: 1 Tracks: 1 Layers: 1 Capacity: 79:57:74 (LBA 359849) (736970752 Bytes) Remaining size: 00:00:00 (LBA 0) (0 Bytes) Used Size: 22:42:38 (LBA 102188) (209281024 Bytes) Session | ADR | CONTROL| TNO | POINT | Min | Sec | Frame | Zero | PMIN | PSEC | PFRAME | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | a0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | a1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | a2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 44 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | b0 | 255 | 255 | 255 | 3 | 79 | 59 | 74 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | c0 | 44 | 0 | 174 | 0 | 97 | 34 | 24 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | c1 | 204 | 148 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | (K3bDevice::Device) found invalid bcd values. No bcd toc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinxfsexhoako9iofkr7rf2ioxxj7s7niy91b...@mail.gmail.com
