Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for the hint. Right now my G5 has Apple Tiger or something on the drive and on the SSD that I added to it has OpenBSD 6.5/macppc. I select from Openfirmware which one I want to run. The problem with booting a linux to install it where Apple Tiger is, is that my CD's that I have are not accepted by the DVD drive for some odd reason. It takes it, thinks a bit, motors whirr and then it opens up and spits it out. I tried netbooting OpenSUSE and debian but beyond grub I don't get anywhere...after loading the initrd it breaks out into the monitor with SRR0 and SRR1 displayed. I played a little with the boot-volume setenv in openfirmware changing it from 3 to 0, -1, but that didn't help, chime sound is still on. I remember managing to turn off the sound on my ibook 19 years ago, but that was a long time ago and I don't remember what I did except that it took me multiple tries in a library and pissing off people :-). Anyhow until I get some accepted CD's I'M kinda stuck with the setup as it is now.
Best Regards, -peter On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 05:29:56PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > 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
