Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread Risto Suominen
2018-11-29 19:54 UTC+02.00, Riccardo Mottola : > Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Is there a way to list files from OF, just to be sure the device and paths > are correct? > I think there is a 'dir' command with same syntax as 'boot'. Risto

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi John John Ogness wrote: Have you checked if the device is recognized? With the OF command "devalias" you can see what usb0 is. For example, for me it is: /pci@f200/usb@1b,1 You can manually traverse the device tree and see if the USB disk is detected: dev usb0 ls <--- should show a

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread John Ogness
On 2018-11-29, John Ogness wrote: > On a side note, it is a bit frustrating that I provided a patch and > even NMU package [0] with a fix 3 months ago but because it is not > being accepted, people like you continue to waste our time on this > issue. Sorry, I think that last sentence was formulat

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread John Ogness
Hi Riccardo, On 2018-11-29, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I did try to get debian 8.11.0 netinst on an USB stick > > I am unable to boot that stick, neither with just "boot usb" from OF, > neither using this: > > 1. download jessie powerpc netinst iso[1] and dd it to a USB stick > > 2. boot into open

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 11/29/18 18:54, Riccardo Mottola wrote: If I do:    boot usb0/disk@1:2,\install\yaboot -> Can't open device or file    boot usb1/disk@1:2,\install\yaboot -> Can't open device or file    boot usb1a/disk@1:2,\install\yaboot I get a big grey screen with the "not found" sign in the middle,

Bug#915046: mariadb-10.3: Please build with -latomic where necessary

2018-11-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: mariadb-10.3 Version: 1:10.1.37-1 Severity: normal User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc Hello! On some 32-bit targets like mips or powerpc, the mariabdb-10.3 build fails with: error: #error atomic ops for this platform are not implemented This is because the test for

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Riccardo Mottola wrote: I did not try any USB tricks, I always had issues with USB sticks on Mac, this is why I ent to optical media. I did try to get debian 8.11.0 netinst on an USB stick I am unable to boot that stick, neither with just "boot usb" from OF, neither using this: 1. downloa

issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

2018-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! I want to install on my iBook G4. It is a slightly different model than the one I succeded 10 days ago... this is the 14" version and not the 12". The last one had a motherboard failure, so I can't "test" on the old one. I burned on CD the iso from here, https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimag

Bug#914997: glibc: Please disable or ignore misc/tst-pkey on powerpc/powerpcspe/ppc64

2018-11-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: glibc Version: 2.28-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc Hello! The misc/tst-pkey currently fails on all big-endian PowerPC targets as the Linux kernel is missing an implementation of pkey_set and pkey_get on these targets [1]. Can you