Hi Ed,
On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 13:41:20 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote:
> Hi,
> One of my machines is a powerbook 12" with nvidia nv34 chipset. Last
> week there was an update to mesa packages and since then opengl has
> stopped working. glxinfo reports "Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
> or fbconfig",
On Tue, 2024-10-08 at 12:11:11 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I assume the new kernel works fine on your PowerBook G4 so far?
It does - I didn't give it thorough testing yet, but it boots without any
hiccups. I spotted some BT complaint which likely is unrelated.
Now I've got to find o
On Tue, 2024-10-08 at 12:01:04 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-10-08 at 11:55 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> > On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 15:38:51 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > As I said in my second mail, please just boot into 6.3.0-1 which
On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 15:38:51 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> As I said in my second mail, please just boot into 6.3.0-1 which is shown
> in the Advanced Options menu of GRUB. You can then install 6.11.x from
> experimental where this issue has been fixed - once the kernel package has
>
On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 13:09:00 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote:
> FWIW on most of my machines "boot ud:,\\yaboot" will boot from USB,
> but not all of them.
>
> On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 12:47, Steffen Grunewald
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 12:42:02 +0100,
On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:37:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Claudia,
>
> On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:00 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> > I downloaded firmware-b43-installer but cannot install it, because it wants
> > b43-fwcutter.
> > This package is only available für ppc64el not f
On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 12:42:02 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > There are hints in some forum threads that the A1095 indeed may be one of
> > few (perhaps the only?) G4 models that cannot boot from USB.
> > BootROM version is 4.8.6f0, fwiw.
>
> That's frustrating. Can you confirm which partition
On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 09:43:39 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>
> FWIW I did my last install on a G4 Mac Mini using a USB stick running
> Adrian's latest (at the time) image. I used dd to copy the netinst image to
> a USB stick, used "show-devs" to locate the USB drive, and then tweaked the
> cd a
Hi Efraim,
On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 10:25:56 +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> I know the powerbook and ibook are different machines, but I was able to
> boot my ibook off a USB stick. I'll drop the link here in case it does
> actually work for you.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/10/
On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 15:26:30 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> after "You can't boot a kdump kernel from OF!".
>
> Whatever that asks me to do next...
Hm, #1079755i (and #1079725). I should have remembered this.
I guess a reasonable workaround would be to use the kernel from the CD?
- S
aps that's why the site is called "macrumors" in the 1st place? =:-)
For now, I can confirm that the 2023-06-18 snapshot works to install on a
15" aluminum PC G4 (PB 5,4; A1095) with a - still working! - SuperDrive.
I'm curious whether USB keys might also work (i.e., how
/, etc.
I suppose I've got to use the second console to fill in the necessary
actions to get grub installed, right? How? (And am I using the right disk?)
Any hints are welcome; I used to keep documentation whereever possible but
in this case too much time has passed :(
Thanks,
Steffen
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S
Hi,
On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 09:53:16 +0100, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
> Am Dienstag, dem 14.12.2021 um 17:12 -0800 schrieb Rick Thomas:
> > What is the URL for the latest Debian installer iso for a powerpc
> > (32-bit, G4) macintosh?
>
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-10-2
On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 09:52:51 +0200, Mick Bert wrote:
> I am trying to update debian in my iBook G4 since a very long time, but the
> "apt update" command fails due to mising public key for signature checking.
Extract the key ID from the error message, fetch the key (using gpg
--recv-keys),
then
suggestions, caveats are highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Steffen
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