> On Apr 13, 2019, at 6:26 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> On 4/13/19 10:36 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>> Loading Linux 4.19.0-4-powerpc …
>>> error: failure reading sector 0x208099d7 from
>>> `ieee1275//pci@2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f00/disk@0’
>>>
>>> Loading initial ramdisk …
>>> error: you need to load the kernel first
>>>
>>> Press any key to continue …
>>
>> I was able to boot into rescue mode from the CD-R and retrieved the attached
>> information.
>> Let me know if there’s anything more you need.
>
> Hmm, this sounds as if there are problems with your disk or disk controller.
>
> Can you tell me the exact model number of your Mac? I might have the same
> sitting in the storage room of the university and give it a try myself
> soonish.
The install went fine, with no hint of hardware problems. For what that’s
worth.
Here’s the output of ‘cat /proc/cpuinfo’
> processor : 0
> cpu : 7410, altivec supported
> temperature : 35-37 C (uncalibrated)
> clock : 533.333332MHz
> revision : 1.3 (pvr 800c 1103)
> bogomips : 66.58
>
> timebase : 33290001
> platform : PowerMac
> model : PowerMac3,4
> machine : PowerMac3,4
> motherboard : PowerMac3,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
> detected as : 69 (PowerMac G4 Silver)
> pmac flags : 00000010
> L2 cache : 1024K unified
> pmac-generation : NewWorld
> Memory : 1536 MB
and ‘df -HTP’
> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3 ext4 313G 1.2G 296G 1% /
> devtmpfs devtmpfs 781M 0 781M 0% /dev
> none tmpfs 159M 91k 158M 1% /run
and ‘mac-fdisk -l’
> /dev/sda
> # type name length base (
> size ) system
> /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 (
> 31.5k) Partition map
> /dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 39063 @ 64 (
> 19.1M) NewWorld bootblock
> /dev/sda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 622087891 @ 39127
> (296.6G) Linux native
> /dev/sda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 3015381 @ 622127018 (
> 1.4G) Linux swap
> /dev/sda5 Apple_Free Extra 49 @ 625142399 (
> 24.5k) Free space
>
> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=625142448
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Does any of that help?
Rick
