On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 04:46:58PM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
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.
No need for a CD drive: tried to load a live or installer linux via
some USB thumb already? Instructions:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ppc&m=155231977928919&w=2
I did complete installs (32-bit) this way ... I have no idea whether
the Debian installer has that "nvsetvol" tool on board, but it might
be worth a try.
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.
Maybe try newer Debian images, or try somewthing like
boot [some usb pattern here??]:,\\:tbxi
see:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2019/05/msg00112.html
lubuntu live:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04/release/
And I'm not sure whether this image
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04/release/lubuntu-16.04-alternate-powerpc.iso
is 64-bit or not.
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.
Thanks for the hint - but maybe you *might* (be careful, I'm not an OF
expert) need to save the changes to nvram:
see:
"
[to save the results into NVRAM]
reset-all
"
from:
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
Good luck!
Wolfgang
