Hi,
Darn! X doesn't work on my PowerBook G4 too! I was so happy that the
5.14-2 kernel did boot successfully with a console, but it does not
start X, black screen, exactly as on the iBook.
Contrary to the iBook, the PowerBook has been updated to the very latest
possible packages, including
Hi,
I carefully upgraded kernel and other selected packages on my trusty
iBook and see how it goes. The iMac G5 runs smooth (except for libffi
issues) with current kernel and Debian the PowerBook adds to this latest
kernel issues, but for the rest it has "only" the libffi issue.
How would th
Hi Stan,
On 28/09/2021 01:49, Stan Johnson wrote:
Which G4 PowerBook are using?
To my knowledge it is one of the absolutely latest PowerBook models,
with USB keyboard (lots of issues!).
multix@Auryn:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock
On Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:39:55 +0100,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> On 10/5/21 21:00, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >> Either way, I'm going to fix it.
> >
> > Awesome!
>
> Please try either of these images, they should fix both issues:
>
> > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/s
On 10/5/21 23:58, Marc Zyngier wrote:> There are some other problems,
unfortunately. I get a warning about
> the boot partition not being the first partition in the system (it
> really looks like it is, but the installer may be confused by the
> Apple partitioning system). I ignored it.
As I said
Hello Adrian,
sorry, no log, but I think there was something wrong in my partition table.
I resolved deleting all partition on disk and reinstalling Debian .
Il 05/10/2021 16:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto:
Hello Sante!
On 10/5/21 15:35, Sante Nocciolino wrote:
Tried to install on
Hello!
On 10/5/21 21:00, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Either way, I'm going to fix it.
>
> Awesome!
Please try either of these images, they should fix both issues:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-10-05/
If you see a dialog box with a blank message, just answer .
Adrian
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On Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:36:58 +0100,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> Hello Marc!
>
> On 10/5/21 19:46, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > However, as the initrd doesn't contain the SATA driver, it is unable
> > to mount the image where all the udeb for the kernel modules are, and
> > at this point I wa
Hello!
On 10/5/21 20:36, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Either way, I'm going to fix it.
Fixed:
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/6c7c4846451b3d89d7f75058a614610feb39fbee
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/bfc78dfccd40e311207
Hi Adrian,
On Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:54:15 +0100,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> Hi Marc!
>
> On 10/5/21 19:46, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > It looks like we reached the same point in parallel! I also realise I
> > should have given a few more details about my setup, because it isn't
> > at all o
Hello Marc!
On 10/5/21 19:46, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> However, as the initrd doesn't contain the SATA driver, it is unable
> to mount the image where all the udeb for the kernel modules are, and
> at this point I was stuck.
I just had a look at the debian-installer package lists and indeed, the
sat
On Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:22:06 +0100,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> Hi Marc!
>
> On 10/5/21 18:10, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > The very good news is that it boots all the way to the installer.
> > The less good news is that it stops pretty quickly as none of the
> > required drivers are actuall
Il 23/09/2021 11:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto:
Hi!
I have just built and uploaded updated Debian Ports installation images.
These images contain an updated apt-setup package which fixes the APT
problem that occurred during installation with the 2021-09-21 images.
I have performed a
Hi Marc!
On 10/5/21 19:46, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> It looks like we reached the same point in parallel! I also realise I
> should have given a few more details about my setup, because it isn't
> at all obvious from my email.
>
> The machine I use has no CDROM (it is what Apple used to call a
> Clus
Hi Marc!
On 10/5/21 18:10, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> The very good news is that it boots all the way to the installer.
> The less good news is that it stops pretty quickly as none of the
> required drivers are actually in the install media.
Not sure what installation media you used, but the CD-ROM im
On 10/5/2021 9:16:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
Hi Marc!
On 10/5/21 18:10, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Many thanks for keeping Debian alive on these old architectures.
You're welcome.
> I just dusted off my XServe-G5 (ppc64) and gave this snapshot a go.
>
> The very good news is that it b
On 10/5/21 19:02, Alex Perez wrote:
> While you're at it, if you could also add SATA_SIL24 to the default build,
> this is, by far, the most common legacy SATA PCI controller that's used in
> legacy PCI-based PowerPC Macs.
Not sure what you mean by default build. The sata_sil24 module is part of
Hi Adrian,
On 2021-09-23 10:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
I have just built and uploaded updated Debian Ports installation
images.
These images contain an updated apt-setup package which fixes the APT
problem that occurred during installation with the 2021-09-21 images.
I have pe
Hi Marc!
On 10/5/21 18:10, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Many thanks for keeping Debian alive on these old architectures.
You're welcome.
> I just dusted off my XServe-G5 (ppc64) and gave this snapshot a go.
>
> The very good news is that it boots all the way to the installer.
> The less good news is t
On 10/5/21 16:33, Alex McKeever wrote:
> I translated what Sante said the error message was via Google Translate:
> The error is this:
> "grub-install: error: the selected partition is not a PReP partition"
Yes, I could have done that with Google Translate myself. But that error
message is not hel
I translated what Sante said the error message was via Google Translate:
The error is this:
"grub-install: error: the selected partition is not a PReP partition"
I hope all is well, Adrian. Aside from trying to get X working on Linux in
general (which I’ve failed to do so with my iMac G3 in both
Hello Sante!
On 10/5/21 15:35, Sante Nocciolino wrote:
> Tried to install on mac mini G4
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-09-23/debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
>
> but grub fails to install. The installation process reports it was not able
> to install on /dev/sda3
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