Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > What about a funding? I would actually be willing to shell out some money Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Certainly if there were some funding available, this is something that I > could look at if required. If you do, i am ready for giving advise about libisof

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Odd. I just ran this command on Debian/powerpc but it didn't produce any > > output file but also no error message. > Ah, grub-mkrescue needs xorriso as a dependency. I wonder why this gesture of grub-mkrescue did not tell you: if (!check_xorriso ("gra

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 30/04/2019 23:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Both usb0 and usb1 show an empty list for me on my iBook G4. usb2 lists > the internal keyboard and mouse. So it seems that this particular model > doesn't support USB disks unless I am missing something. I actually managed to install on my

Re: Switching debian-installer CD images to GRUB

2019-04-30 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 29/04/2019 13:05, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: >>> [...] Fedora HFS image [...] >>> I think Fedora uses hfsutils to create and populate it. > >> My colleague Marcus Schaefer at SUSE told me >> about this solution. He's the maintainer of SUSE's KIWI image tool (but >> I think you k

Re: Switching debian-installer CD images to GRUB

2019-04-30 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 29/04/2019 11:08, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Thomas! > > On 4/29/19 9:41 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> Btw, I was wondering how much it would take to add HFS support to >>> xorriso but I guess the necessary changes are so extensive which >>> is wh

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/30/19 6:07 PM, Steve Burkhart wrote: > This has worked for me on every ibook / powerbook I have tried it on. > First check to see where your usb stick is located. You would do > > dev usb0 > > ls > > dev usb1 > > ls > > etc.. until you find the one that has @disk1 Both usb0 and usb1 show

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Noah Wolfe
https://fienixppc.blogspot.com/p/instructions-for-open-firmware-g5.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS58kQ10qas On Apr 30, 2019, at 6:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > I have dug out one of my iBook G4s now so I can perform installer > tests > on the PowerMac target. Whi

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Peter
>Hello! > >I have dug out one of my iBook G4s now so I can perform installer >tests on the PowerMac target. While the machine has a built-in optical >drive, I would avoid having to burn CDs for every installation test >run (even when using CD-RWs), so I was wondering how well booting from >USB >sti

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/30/19 11:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/30/19 10:42 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> A merely bootable ISO which leads to a GRUB console prompt is produced >> by: >> >> mkdir minimal >> touch minimal/empty-file.txt >> grub-mkrescue -o output.iso minimal >> >> output.iso is su

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/30/19 10:42 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > A merely bootable ISO which leads to a GRUB console prompt is produced > by: > > mkdir minimal > touch minimal/empty-file.txt > grub-mkrescue -o output.iso minimal > > output.iso is supposed to contain an Apple Partition Map and a HFS+ > superblo

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread S.G.A. Hubers
Hello all, In response to the booting G4 from USB... I booted my iBook G4 (A1134 2005 model with 1,42 GHz cpu and 1GB DDR) with the string : > boot usb0/disk@1:2,\\yaboot Going straight into the second partition on the USB, where all the boot information is stored. Some use the third partitio

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 4/30/19 10:42 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > There is a GRUB_INSTALL_PLATFORM_POWERPC_IEEE1275 for which > grub-mkrescue produces bootable ISOs. I understand that the ISO gets > prepared with HFS+ for this platform if a directory > > /usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275 > > exists with the fi

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, aggaz wrote: > Are ISO images capable to boot with GRUB instead of yaboot already > available for the masses? If so I would like to try to boot one. There is a GRUB_INSTALL_PLATFORM_POWERPC_IEEE1275 for which grub-mkrescue produces bootable ISOs. I understand that the ISO gets prepared with H

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/30/19 21:56, Linux User #330250 wrote: Despite what others said, it should really work with every Macintosh that has the NewWorld bootrom and thus at least Open Firmware 3.0, i.e. starting with the iMac "Bondi" 1998 and the PowerBook G3 "Lombard" 1999. And, it's all already written down in

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Linux User #330250
Am 30.04.19 um 12:54 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > Hello! I have dug out one of my iBook G4s now so I can perform > installer tests on the PowerMac target. While the machine has a > built-in optical drive, I would avoid having to burn CDs for every > installation test run (even when using CD

Re: Switching debian-installer CD images to GRUB

2019-04-30 Thread Linux User #330250
On 28.04.2019, 23:15, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > I just checked the OF on my 11,2 type Power Mac G5 and it - in addition > to `fat-files` (I assume this contains support for FAT file systems) > `mac-files` (I assume this contains support for HFS) - has > `hfs-plus-files` and `iso-9660-files` in `/pa

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Steve Burkhart
This has worked for me on every ibook / powerbook I have tried it on. First check to see where your usb stick is located. You would do dev usb0 ls dev usb1 ls etc.. until you find the one that has @disk1 this is the one that you want to tell OF to boot from. So, lets say your usb stick is at

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Karl
Last Gen of Powerbook G4 12“ doesn’t boot from USB also. > Am 30.04.2019 um 16:08 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : > > On 4/30/19 3:49 PM, aggaz wrote: >> (snip) >> I find the documentation from NetBSD be the best companion to exploit >> OpenFirmware, in case of problems I suggest to take

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
Pretty straight forward 1. Burn the image to usb 2. Plug it in 3 boot into the boot loader by holding down the opt key 4. You should see the usb as a boot device Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2019, at 3:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hello! > > I have dug out one of my iB

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/30/19 3:49 PM, aggaz wrote: > (snip) > I find the documentation from NetBSD be the best companion to exploit > OpenFirmware, in case of problems I suggest to take a look at it [1,2]. > > [1] https://www.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/faq.html > [2] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/macppc

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread aggaz
As far as I know, only newer machines are able to boot from USB. I was able to boot from USB on a PowerMac G5 (PowerMac11,2), but I was not able to boot on an iMac G3 and on a eMac G4. In the case of the G5, if the machine is booted with a USB stick in it, it should be possible to see the "ud" al

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/30/19 2:42 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Hi Adrian, > IIRC "aggaz" used a USB stick to boot his G5, see [1]. Seems like one > can just `dd` the ISO to the USB stick and it works with `boot > :,\install\yaboot` or sometimes also with `boot > :,\\:tbxi` - if USB boot is supported by the machine.

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 4/30/19 12:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I have dug out one of my iBook G4s now so I can perform installer tests on the PowerMac target. While the machine has a built-in optical drive, I would avoid having to burn CDs for every installation test run (even when using

Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I have dug out one of my iBook G4s now so I can perform installer tests on the PowerMac target. While the machine has a built-in optical drive, I would avoid having to burn CDs for every installation test run (even when using CD-RWs), so I was wondering how well booting from USB sticks work