Hi all! I have several PowerPC based computers. One of them is an iMac G3/500 DV SE (powermac2,2) with 1 GB RAM and 30 GB hard drive.
I've had it with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but it's out of support already. It worked fine from boot perspective, and it was using yaboot. I wanted to install Debian 12, now that I know that the architecture is being maintained. I downloaded and installed it from this image: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2024-02-25/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso . The disk layout for this installation was: Device / Size / Type / Mount point / Bootable ------------------------------------------------------- /dev/sda13 128MB HFS /boot/grub yes /dev/sda14 11GB ext4 / no /dev/sda15 512MB swap no However, when it comes the time to install grub, the system hangs at 16% progress of that stage. I opened a console and checked. The process hung was grub-ieee1275 The system log (Alt+F4) showed a dump of a killed process. I was able to kill that and finish the installation (users etcetera). I booted in rescue mode. Then mounted and verified that /boot/grub was r/w. Then tried to complete the installation, to no avail. The error message this time: Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform . Errors were encountered while processing grub-ieee1275 Any hint of what I'm missing or doing wrong? Any hint will be very much appreciated. -- Regards, Manuel Molina Cuberos
