On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 4:57 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 2/3/21 1:44 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > So I tried this. I installed from the 2021-02-02 NETINST ppc64 on my G5
> > powermac.
> > When it got to the end and wanted to reboot, I switched to the F2 console
> > and ran
> > th
On 2/3/21 2:49 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> What I did was to install in expert mode, when it got to installing special
> parts,
> I asked it to install the network console. Then I allowed it to proceed and
> (after
> a bit) I was invited to log in via ssh, which I did.
>
> That way I was able to ru
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 4:22 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> For anyone wanting to install a current Debian unstable snapshot onto their
> PowerMacs, I'm going to write down a short guide how to make sure GRUB
> gets installed properly (in case the installation fails).
>
> Use e
On 2/3/21 1:44 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> So I tried this. I installed from the 2021-02-02 NETINST ppc64 on my G5
> powermac.
> When it got to the end and wanted to reboot, I switched to the F2 console and
> ran
> the above routine. Then I allowed it to reboot.
You probably did not copy the ins
I need to ask now...
On 2/2/21 9:43 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Yes, and that libhfsp-dev is actually built from the hfsplus source package
which is a
fork of hfsutils to support HFS+ but it doesn't have a hattrib command anymore
which
is used in hfsutils to bless a file system folde
On 2/2/21 8:59 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Also OpenBIOS has its own fairly compact HFS+ driver at
> https://github.com/openbios/\
> openbios/tree/master/fs/hfsplus which according to the comments is taken from
> libhfsp
> which still seems to be available in Debian:
> https://packages.debian.
On 02/02/2021 19:39, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
- Use HFS+ with hfsprogs and write a blessing tool based on libisofs [2]
The code was contributed by Vladimir Serbinenko in 2012, when he was
the active maintainer of GRUB. See:
https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libbu
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> - Use HFS+ with hfsprogs and write a blessing tool based on libisofs [2]
The code was contributed by Vladimir Serbinenko in 2012, when he was
the active maintainer of GRUB. See:
https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisofs/raw/branch/master/libisofs/hfsplu
On 2/2/21 8:22 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> We could try re-adding HFS Legacy support to hfsprogs [1] which should
> be feasible as well.
This particular plan would involve:
- re-add HFS Legacy support to hfsprogs
- create hfsprogs udeb package
- create hfsutils udeb package
Since this
On 2/2/21 8:15 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> As I explained, from the installer's point of view, hfsprogs is more straight-
> forward because it use the same command line interface as all the other
> filesystem
> utilities, so that "mkfs -t hfs" works.
>
> hfsutils uses "hformat $DEVICE"
Hello Johannes!
On 2/2/21 7:51 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
>> On a sidenote: This variant has the huge advantage that the partioning tool
>> in debian-installer takes care of setting up the HFS+ partition and making
>> sure nothing gets overwritten etc.
>>
>> This is something that we would hav
Hello Adrian,
thank you for your work and your approach towards fixing this issue.
On 2 Feb 2021, at 16:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 2/2/21 4:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
In order to solve this issue, we have a couple of options:
- Use HFS instead of HFS+ and use the o
On 2/2/21 4:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> In order to solve this issue, we have a couple of options:
>
> - Use HFS instead of HFS+ and use the old hformat utility in grub-installer
On a sidenote: This variant has the huge advantage that the partioning tool
in debian-installer takes ca
Hello!
I had a closer look at the bootloader installation on PowerMacs today and
realized
that so far we never blessed the bootloader partition on hard disk which is why
the
installed Debian system never showed up as a selectable icon in the OpenFirmware
boot menu. We merely hard-wired the boot
Hello!
For anyone wanting to install a current Debian unstable snapshot onto their
PowerMacs, I'm going to write down a short guide how to make sure GRUB
gets installed properly (in case the installation fails).
Use either the powerpc or ppc64 image depending on your machine type:
> https://cdim
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