Re: Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

2019-05-08 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/9/19 08:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/8/19 7:20 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Not for the 11,2 type G5s. AFAIK there never was an adapter available that would allow access to the - existing - serial console port(s). You can always plug in a USB-RS232 converter and pass "console=tt

Re: Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

2019-05-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/8/19 7:20 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Not for the 11,2 type G5s. AFAIK there never was an adapter available > that would allow access to the - existing - serial console port(s). You can always plug in a USB-RS232 converter and pass "console=ttyUSB0" on the kernel command line. There is no nee

Re: Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

2019-05-08 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/8/19 13:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/8/19 1:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Sounds too much like work for an annoying little thing. I will connect a KVM to it perhaps and that may solve it without knowing why it happens.  As for a serial port or serial console, in my dreams. There

Re: Can not run installer with new GRUB image

2019-05-08 Thread aggaz
I confirm that the image burned on a CD works on a PowerMac6,4 (eMac G4). I can boot GRUB by using the OF command: boot cd:,\\:tbxi or by pressing the "c" key during first boot. I can also see the installer. Regards A. Il 07/05/19 10:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: >> I also tried

Re: Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

2019-05-08 Thread Karl
Maybe this helps? http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20040731-xserve-clusternode-linuxppc/ > Am 08.05.2019 um 13:30 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : > > On 5/8/19 1:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Sounds too much like work for an annoying little thing. >> I will connect a KVM to it perhaps an

Re: Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

2019-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/7/19 4:59 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/6/19 5:33 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Also it is Debian sid. I simply compiled a kernel on it which explains the 5.0.11 version. What's the point of posting the uname information then? The information was misleading in this context. In the

Re: Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

2019-05-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/8/19 1:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Sounds too much like work for an annoying little thing. > I will connect a KVM to it perhaps and that may solve it without > knowing why it happens.  As for a serial port or serial console, > in my dreams. There is no way that I know to attach a serial > po