Hello,
I am trying to revive a PowerMac G5 Quad CPU system but currently have no Apple GPU at this time. As such I am trying to install Debian Sid to a 1.8 DP G5 with a Radeon 9600 AGP card and swap the drive over, but I have hit an impassable barrier with the Sid installer ISO. I can start it from CD or USB just fine, and get to GRUB, select an install option (I tried Default and Expert) but, after loading for a while it seems to load the kernel okay, but then hangs. I can see a white screen behind that shows it quiescing from OFW and it seems like it booted the kernel, and the fans quiet down, then overtop that I get black background and white text that seems to point to CPU or SMP initialisation as follows: smp_core99_probe smp_core99_kick_cpu smp_core99_kick_cpu_done smp_core99_bringup_done And at that point it seems to stop. Nothing else happens. No install media access, nothing. Can someone give me some guidance as to what might be going wrong? Thanks, — Mark Benson
