Hi Glenn! On 1/14/22 22:59, Glenn Washburn wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:48:56 +0100 > > Hi Adrian, thanks for testing this for me.
You're welcome! >> On 1/14/22 09:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> I have burnt the ISO to a CD-R now and booted my iBook G4 with it. >>> >>> It boots but gets stuck at "Welcome to GRUB!". I can hear CD-ROM access >>> noises >>> from time to time but no changes on the screen so far. I'll let it running >>> for some time. >> >> OK, so the machine just shut itself off. There was no other output besides >> the >> message "Welcome to GRUB!", but I assume that is as expected and the tests >> run >> silently, then shut the machine off. >> >> So, it seems to work on real hardware. > > I forgot the output gets sent to the serial port, so that's why you > don't see anything. That's good that it works (ie shuts itself down). > That leads me to believe there's a bug in PowerPC Open Firmware. Ah, serial output indeed explains why I didn't see anything. The problem is that this is an iBook G4 which doesn't have a serial output I could use, so output to the framebuffer would be better. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
