Hello Stan,
unfortunately, I'm neither an OF expert nor a programmer, but I would
guess that the best way to make GRUB boot Mac OS and Mac OS X would be
for it to do whatever yaboot does.
I believe all yaboot does is ask OF to boot to the partition containing
the original bootloader of OS X.
Hello,
I've confirmed that the version of GRUB (2.06-2) from the 24 Mar 2022
powerpc installation CD can be used to boot other GNU/Linux operating
systems on a PowerBook Pismo (Gentoo and Void both work).
I also tried many different options in the grub.cfg file in an attempt
to get Mac OS and Mac
Hi,
I can confirm that I was able to boot from the image from a USB key using
the line from Ben Westover in the previous message.
A CD-RW and two USB keys failed to work, it worked on the third USB key --
who knows why.
I have some slowness and error messages on boot ("ata1: SRST failed
(errno=-16)
On 3/28/22 18:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
On 3/28/22 22:58, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Works like a charm!
Good to hear!
Indeed. I am still unsure how I landed in this spot but it all started
with the dreaded nvram --update-config boot-device="" step. That gave
me a machine th
Hi!
On 3/28/22 22:58, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Works like a charm!
Good to hear!
> I simply used the default install option from the GRUB menu that
> is provided by the installer and then followed the prompts. Not sure
> what you changed but this time everything just flows naturally. Shoul
On 3/28/22 14:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Mar 28, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
With great thanks to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz we see new test images
have landed :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
Therefore I shall jump on that righ
On 3/28/22 14:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Mar 28, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
With great thanks to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz we see new test images
have landed :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
Therefore I shall jump on that righ
> On Mar 28, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>
>
> With great thanks to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz we see new test images
> have landed :
>
>https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
>
> Therefore I shall jump on that right away and begin a test install
>
With great thanks to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz we see new test images
have landed :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
Therefore I shall jump on that right away and begin a test install
on my dual disk PowerMac G5 "quad" and I hope for wonderful things.
--
De
On 3/28/22 04:13, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:00 AM Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 3/28/22 03:56, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:52 AM Dennis Clarke wrote:
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Computer says no. :) sorry.
I checked /proc/modules and there is no radeon to be see
On 3/28/22 04:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/28/22 09:56, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Can you try with one of the hard drives removed?
That would be somewhat difficult tonight. I have it in a stack with
another silver Power_Xeon_Mac under it and a system running on top of it
etc etc etc.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:00 AM Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
> On 3/28/22 03:56, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:52 AM Dennis Clarke wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Red background always during install :
> >>
> >> https://i.imgur.com/ja5SI2x.png
> >>
> >> Strange but true :\
> >>
> >> Sam
On 3/28/22 09:56, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> Can you try with one of the hard drives removed?
>>
> That would be somewhat difficult tonight. I have it in a stack with
> another silver Power_Xeon_Mac under it and a system running on top of it
> etc etc etc. However I can shut things down and begin t
On 3/28/22 03:56, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:52 AM Dennis Clarke wrote:
Red background always during install :
https://i.imgur.com/ja5SI2x.png
Strange but true :\
Same thing I saw last year and the year before that etc ...
Can you check that radeonfb module was lo
Hi Mathieu!
On 3/28/22 09:56, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Can you check that radeonfb module was loaded ? I believe Alt+F2 gives
> you a shell during the install.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/826629
Thanks for the reference. I was pretty sure that we've seen this bug before
on PowerPC but I couldn
Can you try with one of the hard drives removed?
That would be somewhat difficult tonight. I have it in a stack with
another silver Power_Xeon_Mac under it and a system running on top of it
etc etc etc. However I can shut things down and begin the dusty process
if we really need to rip out
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:52 AM Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>
> Red background always during install :
>
> https://i.imgur.com/ja5SI2x.png
>
> Strange but true :\
>
> Same thing I saw last year and the year before that etc ...
Can you check that radeonfb module was loaded ? I believe Alt+F2 gives
you
On 3/28/22 09:50, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Actually I wiped both disks and went back to the partition stage and used sdb
> ( why not ? ) where I see good results :
>
> https://i.imgur.com/wfCbQLQ.png
That looks good unless findfs() in grub-installer gets confused with
/target/boot/grub
coming
Also very strange. It should be blue.
However the machine runs great. Stable as a rock. When we get an install
done of course. ha ha
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional
Red background always during install :
https://i.imgur.com/ja5SI2x.png
Strange but true :\
Same thing I saw last year and the year before that etc ...
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional
On 3/28/22 09:39, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Did you actually switch to a second console and checked there is an
>> HFS partition, i.e. by running:
>>
>> # mount | grep hfs
>
> Just tried that. Sorry. Nothing there.
Strange.
> Also, same error as before the GRUB boot loader will not install.
Can
On 3/28/22 03:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/28/22 09:18, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I can only guess that the partition step worked :
https://i.imgur.com/izFmDCe.png
Did you actually switch to a second console and checked there is an
HFS partition, i.e. by running:
# mount | grep
On 3/28/22 03:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/28/22 09:18, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I can only guess that the partition step worked :
https://i.imgur.com/izFmDCe.png
Did you actually switch to a second console and checked there is an
HFS partition, i.e. by running:
# mount | grep
On 3/28/22 09:18, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> I can only guess that the partition step worked :
>
> https://i.imgur.com/izFmDCe.png
Did you actually switch to a second console and checked there is an
HFS partition, i.e. by running:
# mount | grep hfs
> However this is exactly what I saw the firs
Am Sonntag, dem 27.03.2022 um 16:17 -0400 schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
> I don't know about the G4's, but I know about the G5's. You cannot
> boot a G5 from USB. You have to burn a CD and boot from the CD.
Booting a G5 PowerMac 11,2 from USB works well, I don't know about the
older ones.
See this mail
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
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