On 5/20/20 10:12 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > I installed Debian SID from the 4/19/2020 installation CD to a PowerBook > G4, 1.5 GHz, 1.25 GB memory. It seems to have installed well -- thanks > to everyone who is working to maintain Debian for PowerPC!
Great to hear! > This system has valid installations of Mac OS X Tiger and Mac OS X > Leopard. During installation, these operating systems were detected: > Mac OS X (32-bit) (on /dev/sda3) <-- This should be Mac OS X Tiger > Mac OS X (64-bit) (on /dev/sda3) > Mac OS X (32-bit) (on /dev/sda4) <-- This should be Mac OS X Leopard > Mac OS X (64-bit) (on /dev/sda4) > > After installation, if I select either the first or third choice, I see: > error: can't find command `xnu_kernel'. > error: can't find command `xnu_mkext'. > Press any key to continue... > > I'm not sure why the second and fourth choices exist at all on this system. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix the GRUB configuration to > allow booting of Mac OS X partitions? I'll study the man pages, but if > I can't get it to work, I'll need to install yaboot instead. Someone on this mailing list explained how to fix that. I think that was last month or so. Or maybe the mailing list member in question will read your mail. > And I have these additional comments and suggestions (some of these may > be out of scope of the Debian PPC unsupported port): > > 1) I know Debian has opted to use systemd instead of sysvinit; however, > there are valid reasons (mostly resource related) to opt for sysvinit on > some systems. For example, on a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet, 266 MHz, 384 > MB memory, sysvinit runs better than systemd. This is not an invitation > to re-open (or start a new) systemd discussion, it is a request to allow > installation of packages that shouldn't require systemd, such as > synaptic, to be installed without also installing systemd. Fortunately, > Xfce can still be installed without systemd. This isn't really something I can change, sorry. You can just install sysvinit and it will work. Whether certain desktops work without systemd is basically a decision that has been made upstream. > 2) Is there a way to change the Ethernet interface from "enP2p32s15f0" > back to "eth0"? I'm sure there are many very good reasons to have the > longer names on modern systems, but on the PB G4 I'm not likely to > change out the Ethernet interface, and it would be easier to manage it > as "eth0". Again, I'm not inviting discussion about why the choice of > the longer names is better, I'm just trying to determine whether there > is a user-configurable option for switching it back to "eth0" (as it was > in Debian 7.8). See: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames#How_to_get_it_back Apparently, it's enough to pass "net.ifnames=0" on the kernel command line. > 3) The trackpad on the PB G4 is a little slow and unpredictable in > Debian SID, especially when the system is doing other things (like an > apt-get update or apt-get upgrade). The problems go away if I use a USB > mouse, but I'm wondering if there is any way to tune the trackpad > performance (or if not to just disable it altogether). Did you try asking on the corresponding Linux kernel mailing list? 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
