On 21/03/2025 22:20, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote:
Hi Adrian
On 18/03/2025 14:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello,
I have build updated installation images for Debian Ports.
If you run into any issue or have question, please let me know.
To start, I chose to test this new image (thanks for this update) on
MacMini G4. On this machine, it used to work but this time, I have a
fatal error: grub fails to be installed. It mentions "grub-install
/dev/sda3" and the more detailed error "filesystem on /boot/grub is
neither HFS nor HFS+".
When I created partitions with the easiest way using the whole disk, I
had a 256 MB hfs partition (/dev/sda2) and a 58.7 GB ext4 partition
(/dev/sda3). But I can't see this hfs partition and grub-install tries
to use my root partition ...
I used an USB stick to perform the installation.
I tested the installation on this machine with image 2024-12-24 and
after the partitioning, in another console, mount shows the hfs
partition, what is not the case with image 2025-03-16.
To continue testing 32-bit machines, I tried to install the latest image
on PowerBook G4 and after have chosen the default install, it is stuck at:
Quiescing Open Firmware ...
Booting Linux via __start() @ 0x20c00000
I obtain exactly the same result with QEMU that I tried to install with
the followind command line (not sure of it, but it is hard to find a
procedure for recent Debian versions, for example):
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99,via=pmu -m 1024
-hda debian-12.qcow2 -cdrom
/home/mathias/Téléchargements/20250316-debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
Still on this PowerBook G4, the image 2024-12-24 stops at the same place.
Mathias
