On 2/1/21 4:19 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > I have created fresh installation images for the Debian Ports architectures > today [1] > and one very important change is a new upstream version of parted that was > just [2] > released and uploaded to Debian unstable [3]. > > Testing the powerpc image on my iBook G4 showed that partman is no longer > hanging > and the partioner starts up normally. I can therefore get back to fixing the > bootloader > installation for Apple PowerMac systems as I can finally test the images > myself again. > > Feel free to test the images and report any issues besides the GRUB issue > which I am > going to work on tomorrow. > > Adrian > >> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-02-01/ >> [2] https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9924 >> [3] https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/parted/news/20210130T003446Z.html >
I am jumping onto this right now ! I had almost lost all faith in my Apple PowerMac G5 stack ever working again and even in the FreeBSD world it is becoming *nearly* a lost cause. These are really old machines after all with somewhat oddball "open" firmware. But it would be nice to have another big endian platform around other than all my SPARC stuff. Of which I have stacks and stacks. That too has a real problem somewhere in grub-mkconfig process but that is off topic here. Sort of. OKay .. jumping on this now! -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
