Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/28/22 01:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On 3/28/22 00:14, Dennis Clarke wrote: I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message : Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda3 Executing 'grub-i

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ken! On 3/28/22 03:34, Ken Cunningham wrote: > FYI Adrian’s ISO works perfectly for me on both 32 bit and 64 bit systems. Did you test the latest 64-bit image on a 64-bit machine? Looking at the image, I'm very confident it should work and I have not yet figured out what Dennis did that the G

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/28/22 03:10, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ugfqj1ank > > Use the 32-bit version of grubfix32.sh, even on the 64-bit install. > Use /dev/sda2 instead of /dev/sda3 when fixing grub. This guy could have contacted me instead of creating a video which shows how to appl

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 3/28/22 00:14, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used > the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message : > >Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda3 > Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda3' failed. > > This is a

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Mar 28, 2022, at 3:57 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > I can report that the 32-bit powerpc netinst presents me with a GRUB > menu and then "default install" leads to total failure. I took a picture > as there was no other option while staring at a big white console with > strange messages ab

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/27/22 22:25, Stan Johnson wrote: On 3/27/22 7:56 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: ... The 64bit netinst seems to work fine until we get to the GRUB install stage and perhaps the previous syslog and partman files I submitted will shed some light. Otherwise a very stable machine that usually just ru

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/27/22 22:25, Ken Cunningham wrote: Your log said that you saw this: grub-install: error: filesystem on /boot/grub is neither HFS nor HFS+ I have no idea what the filesystem on /boot/grub might be, but it should be HFS or HFS+ for this to work. So, assuming you are using the blessed ISO a

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Ken Cunningham
Your log said that you saw this: grub-install: error: filesystem on /boot/grub is neither HFS nor HFS+ I have no idea what the filesystem on /boot/grub might be, but it should be HFS or HFS+ for this to work. So, assuming you are using the blessed ISO and no other, what I would do is start fre

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/27/22 21:34, Ken Cunningham wrote: On Mar 27, 2022, at 6:10 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ugfqj1ank Use the 32-bit version of grubfix32.sh, even on the 64-bit install. Use /dev/sda2 instead of /dev/sda3 when fixing grub. Jeff FYI Adrian’s ISO works per

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Ken Cunningham
> On Mar 27, 2022, at 6:10 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ugfqj1ank > > Use the 32-bit version of grubfix32.sh, even on the 64-bit install. > Use /dev/sda2 instead of /dev/sda3 when fixing grub. > > Jeff > FYI Adrian’s ISO works perfectly for me on both 32

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 6:15 PM Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used > the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message : > > Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda3 > Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda3' failed. > >

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-27 Thread Ben Westover
Hello Sam, If I try to boot from Open Firmware, I try "boot usb1/disk@1:,\\grub.img" and the error after quite a long pause is "can't OPEN: usb1/disk@1:,\\grub.img Can't open device or file" Of course I can't rule out the possibility that I'm using Open Firmware wrong, after some searches of t

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/27/22 18:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Mar 28, 2022, at 12:15 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:  I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message : Could be that the hfsprogs-udeb package is missing on th

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/27/22 18:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Mar 28, 2022, at 12:15 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:  I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message : Could be that the hfsprogs-udeb package is missing on th

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Mar 28, 2022, at 12:15 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >  > I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used > the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message : Could be that the hfsprogs-udeb package is missing on the ISO. Try installing with the 32-bit power

netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message : Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda3 Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda3' failed. This is a fatal error. I used netcat to fetch the syslog and partman f

Re: Testers on PowerMac needed - overwriting the boot-device in NVRAM

2022-03-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/27/22 17:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Mar 27, 2022, at 10:51 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 3/25/22 03:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Then the machine DOES NOT boot. I see : Welcome to GRUB! error: symbol `grub_disk_native_sectors' not found. grub rescue>

Re: Testers on PowerMac needed - overwriting the boot-device in NVRAM

2022-03-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Mar 27, 2022, at 10:51 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > On 3/25/22 03:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Then the machine DOES NOT boot. > > I see : > > >Welcome to GRUB! > >error: symbol `grub_disk_native_sectors' not found. >grub rescue> This change is unrelated to

Re: Testers on PowerMac needed - overwriting the boot-device in NVRAM

2022-03-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/25/22 03:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I would like to ask users running Debian on a real PowerMac machine (G3, G4, G5 etc) to help me verify a theory on the boot mechanism. . . . As root, run: root@ibook-g4:~# nvram --print-config=boot-device /pci@f400/ata-6@d/@0:2,\\

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-27 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 04:17:35PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:15 PM Sam Imberman wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4 > > Aluminum. > > I am using the image from > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/sn

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Sam! On 3/27/22 22:14, Sam Imberman wrote: > I am using the image from > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ , > which I burnt on a USB stick with "dd > if=./debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso of=/dev/sdg bs=1M" Please don't use these images, these are b

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:15 PM Sam Imberman wrote: > > Hi, > I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4 > Aluminum. > I am using the image from > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ , > which I burnt on a USB stick with "dd > if=

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-27 Thread Sam Imberman
Hi, I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4 Aluminum. I am using the image from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ , which I burnt on a USB stick with "dd if=./debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso of=/dev/sdg bs=1M" When I boot the