Hi Adrian,
On Fri, 2022-03-25 at 12:20 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Peter! > > On 3/25/22 11:58, Peter van Zaanen wrote: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-24/ > > > > works without a problem, and my iBook boots and starts loading the > > kernel. I added linux-firmware-nonfree, but it boots to a > > completely > > black screen. I can only access the iBook via ssh. > > Yes, that's a known issue, you have to install the AMD graphics > package manually: > > # apt install firmware-amd-graphics > > Make sure that the filesystem in /boot/grub is mounted read/write, it > can sometimes > happen that the filesystem gets corrupted such that it gets mounted > read-only. > > You need to install hfsprogs in this case, run fsck.hfs and remount > the filesystem rw: > > # apt install hfsprogs > # umount /boot/grub > # fsck.hfs -y /dev/sda2 (for the case that /boot/grub came from > /dev/sda2) > # mount /dev/sda2 /boot/grub > > After that, run update-grub: > > # update-grub > > After rebooting, graphics should work. > > FWIW, you can also boot the machine with "nomodeset" added to the > command line > in GRUB in case SSH is not available. > > Future images will install the graphics firmware automatically. After following these steps, and with the latest image from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/ which installs fine btw, the screen stays blank. Adding nomodeset to Grub enables me to boot to a login screen, but then after installing a desktop environment startx will fail with an error related to nomodeset. (it did in my previous install, I haven't tried to install a graphical environment this time.) Peter > > Adrian >
