Hi, I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4 Aluminum. I am using the image from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ , which I burnt on a USB stick with "dd if=./debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso of=/dev/sdg bs=1M" When I boot the machine while holding "option", the USB stick is not found. If I try to boot from Open Firmware, I try "boot usb1/disk@1:,\\grub.img" and the error after quite a long pause is "can't OPEN: usb1/disk@1:,\\grub.img Can't open device or file" Of course I can't rule out the possibility that I'm using Open Firmware wrong, after some searches of this list and on the Internet I didn't specifically find a description of the boot line and I'm really not an OF wizard. But there appears to be a drive at /usb@1b/disk@1 and usb1 seems to be aliased to that usb@1b so I think I did it right. Any ideas that I could try next? Thanks! Sam
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 4:04 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello Ben! > > On 3/25/22 21:48, Ben Westover wrote: > > A thank you goes out to all the people who have attempted to help me. > > In all the excitement of this endeavor, my G4's motherboard has died. > > I'm not surprised. > > > Based on previous discussion, I believe the culprit in its failure to > > load GRUB was the system's memory. Upon closer inspection of the machine > > during its autopsy, I found that the memory was mixed and matched with > all > > four sticks having different capacities, speeds, and brands. > > That's almost never a good idea. > > > Seemingly the only PowerMac in the world that fails to boot GRUB has > > officially kicked the bucket. > > I think you should be able to resurrect the machine. Either the capacitors > in the power supply hav gone bad or the ones on the mainboard. In both > cases, > it should be possible to replace them [1]. > > Adrian > > > [1] https://lowendmac.com/mail/07/0626.html > > -- > .''`. 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 > > -- Sam
