powerpc/iBookG4 sid-iso (yaboot failing)

2017-10-11 Thread John Ogness
Hi, Today I downloaded the latest powerpc/sid netinst iso[0] in order to revive my iBookG4 (and hopefully help bring PowerPC back to Debian/testing). Unfortunately the ISO image (burned to CD) would not boot, causing various errors such as "Decrementer exception". Using qemu, I can boot the CD med

Re: powerpc/iBookG4 sid-iso (yaboot failing)

2017-10-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/11/2017 11:00 PM, John Ogness wrote: > Today I downloaded the latest powerpc/sid netinst iso[0] in order to > revive my iBookG4 (and hopefully help bring PowerPC back to > Debian/testing). Unfortunately the ISO image (burned to CD) would not > boot, causing various errors such as "Decrementer

Re: debian-9.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso results in "unknown or corrupt filesystem"

2017-10-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/11/2017 06:16 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Again someone on irc says "that's because you are using Yaboot" which > means the old magic won't work and I need new magic. Yes, it's this bug [1]. As I said in the channel, Yaboot is just old and unmaintained and causes these issues if you try to u

debian-9.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso results in "unknown or corrupt filesystem"

2017-10-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dear ppc types : I have downloaded and booted and installed from the ports area the following : see https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/ports/ also debian-9.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso I went for the "easy" install and simply allow the installer to put everything onto the whole