On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 12:29:58AM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
[ ... ] My first most goal is to get 64 bit working on my G5 because I want to make use of the 4 GB in it. But I'd rather not boot it as 1. it sucks a lot of power, 2. I haven't turned the boot chime off yet,
Re. the boot chime: some live image for ppc64 might help: on Debian-like distros something like nvsetvol 0 then should do it. I've found some ppc 32-bit lubuntu live image to get that done, some time ago, IIRC. Alternatively: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-05-09/ Starting an install with an iso from there (they have 64-bits, it seems) and then switching to a console might be worth a try. Good luck! Wolfgang
