On 5/6/19 6:30 PM, aggaz wrote: > I tried the new image "debian-10.0-powerpc-grub-NETINST-1.iso" from [1] > on a PowerMac11,2 (Power Mac G5). > > I was able to boot the cd with GRUB, but I was not able to run the > installer. > > To boot the image, I dd'ed it on a USB drive and booted with > OpenFirmware by using the following commands: > > boot ud:,\boot\grub\powepc.elf > boot ud:,\\:tbxi > boot ud:,\System\Library\CoreServices\grub.elf > > I see grub and I can select "default install", but after that I end up > with a blank screen from Open Firmware telling me "Invalid memory access".
This sounds like a compatibility issue with GRUB or the kernel on your particular machine. I don't think it's related to the bootability of image itself. > MD5SUM from my USB stick is the same as the downloaded is, as to say: > 433d57104eaca06cd450d87f7f63e368 > > I also tried to boot the same USB drive on a PowerMac6,4 (eMac G4), but > I was not able to list the files contained in the file system. > > I used the command: > > dir /pcif2000000/usb@1b/disk@1:,\ > > which returned me "can't OPEN the DIR device". > > If someone can see an error in this last OF line, please let me know. Does the machine boot with the image burned to a CD? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
