On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:52 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:13 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > I'm sorry I've got to chime in, but I'm currently lost trying to install > > Debian on a resuscitated PowerBook G4 - which got a new disk during the > > process (M.2 128 GB "disk" in M.2-to-44-pin-IDE adapter) as the old one > > must have been broken and removed... > > > > I've started from CD, the image advertises itself as > > > > 11.0.0 "Sid" Unofficial powerpc NETINST 20211006-11:28 > > > > and the install process proceeds nicely - until grub needs to be installed. > > The guided setup created /dev/sda2 for /boot/grub (but didn't mount it into > > /target!), /dev/sda3 for /, etc. > > That image is quite old. Please use the following one: > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-06-18/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso > > I should probably mark the old images as deprecated as a lot of users seem to > be using them only to realize they don't work.
Please note you have to boot the machine into kernel 6.3.0-1 from GRUB (Advanced Options) as the 6.10.x kernels currently suffer from a regression on 32-bit PowerPC which has been fixed in the 6.11.x kernels. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
