Hi Adrian, On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:52:38 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > 11.0.0 "Sid" Unofficial powerpc NETINST 20211006-11:28 > > That image is quite old.
It must have served a purpose a while ago, and this PowerBook is the only ARM device around, AFAICT. Hm. I'm pretty sure this was useful once. Another piece of junk then... Please use the following one: > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-06-18/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso Fortunately, the PB boots off a CR-RW... (but not a USB key), there are no "normal" writable CDs around anymore (but my desktop PC still has a writer) This indeed doesn't pop up the complaint I was seeing before, that "Your boot partition is not located on the first primary partition..." while running a default install (I'll go back and redo the install with custom settings - once I know there are no other pitfalls). Despite the age of the CD image, I'm supposed to use the default mirror settings? Whatever might have gone wrong: after finishing the install, ejecting the disk and rebooting, I now have a blinking question mark inside a folder icon. I had to keep the option key pressed to get a GNU (amd after a while, could click the -> symbol to proceed to GRUB which then attempted to boot the 6.10.11-powerpc kernel... and kicked me into OF with "Invalid memory access" after "You can't boot a kdump kernel from OF!". Whatever that asks me to do next... > 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. Looking for info I found there's a lot of inconsistent information around, but perhaps that's why the site is called "macrumors" in the 1st place? =:-) For now, I can confirm that the 2023-06-18 snapshot works to install on a 15" aluminum PC G4 (PB 5,4; A1095) with a - still working! - SuperDrive. I'm curious whether USB keys might also work (i.e., how to make this beast attempt to boot from USB in the case that no CD drive is available?) Thanks so far, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany ~~~ Fon: +49-331-567 7274 Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de ~~~
