Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

2023-05-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 27.05.23 04:52, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 02:14:16PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: As per `grub-install(8)`: ``` grub-install copies GRUB images into boot/grub. ``` As the call to `grub-install` is performed by `chroot` inside the root FS of the new installation, I

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

2023-05-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hello again, On 26.05.23 13:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On Fri, 2023-05-26 at 13:07 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 24.05.23 15:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: == Installing on a FAT

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

2023-05-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
n.org/frank-scheiner-guest/grub-installer/-/commit/cfe145228adaa34aae780cbb527dce5408107083#ae6e84c2dbfeefe14b039001e1b64254dada292b_895_899 Cheers, Frank

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

2023-05-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
s to an inum in FFS terminology) is recorded, in the HFS+ volume header. [...] ``` ...makes it look like it is specific to HFS(+). I am hence not even sure if the graphical boot menu will work with FAT as OF bootstrap partition. I never used it because I booted the machines from OF. Cheers, Frank

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

2023-05-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
issue for good. See [5] for an implementation from end of 2018 (worked for me on a 11,2 Power Mac G5 and a Mac mini G4). The discussion that followed might be also of interest. [5]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2018/12/msg00054.html Cheers, Frank

Re: Failed: grub-install --target=powerpc-ieee1275

2022-11-24 Thread Frank Scheiner
You're welcome! :-) On 24.11.22 22:22, Peter wrote: Hi Frank, That fixed it, thanks! Peter On Thu, 2022-11-24 at 00:31 +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Peter, On 24.11.22 00:18, Peter wrote: I seem to have a problem with grub being read-only after sudo apt update & apt upgrade on

Re: Failed: grub-install --target=powerpc-ieee1275

2022-11-23 Thread Frank Scheiner
details). When that FS is checked (and possibly repaired) it should be mountable rw again and you should be able to finish your upgrade. [1]: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/hfsprogs/fsck.hfs.8.en.html Cheers, Frank

Re: hfsprogs depends on libssl1.1 which is obsolete

2022-05-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 26.05.22 07:50, Rick Thomas wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2022, at 9:56 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On 5/26/22 00:46, Rick Thomas wrote: The package libssl1.1 seems to have been removed from the powerpc/ppc64 archives. Yes, there is a transition going on towards OpenSSL 3.0.

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread Frank Scheiner
there's definitely something wrong with your cooling system. Cheers, Frank

Re: systemd being pulled in during dist-upgrade

2022-02-21 Thread Frank Scheiner
Small update... On 21.02.22 10:22, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 20.02.22 23:37, Stan Johnson wrote: So there must have been a change in fwupd somewhere between version 1.7.4-1 and 1.7.5-3 that causes it to now require systemd. Please let me know where I should report the issue. [1] lists two

Re: systemd being pulled in during dist-upgrade

2022-02-21 Thread Frank Scheiner
# aptitude why systemd-sysv i init PreDepends systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core Indeed, thanks Rick, that will be helpful in the future for me, too! Cheers, frank

Re: Good news - Fwd: hfsprogs_540.1.linux3-5_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable, unstable

2021-10-14 Thread Frank Scheiner
Congratulations, Adrian! That is a huge step forward. Cheers, Frank On 14.10.21 10:03, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! Good news everyone! The hfsprogs package which has support for debian-installer has now been accepted into unstable \o/. That means, I can finally continue working

Re: Problems with hfsprogs on G5 Power Macs (ppc64)

2020-11-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
1-Linux). QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN ``` Thanks and cheers, Frank

Re: Problems with hfsprogs on G5 Power Macs (ppc64)

2020-11-03 Thread Frank Scheiner
. But maybe these segfaults also happened when trying to check clean FSes. UPDATE: Indeed, [1] says so. :-) Cheers, Frank [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2018/12/msg00053.html

Re: Installing Jessie on PowerMac G4 (32 bit) -- expired key

2020-06-23 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 23.06.20 10:58, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 23.06.20 09:56, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] A signature applied during a valid key period is still good. For those following a key rotation scheme, no new signatures should occur after the key expires. I agree. I have a related issue in my

Re: Installing Jessie on PowerMac G4 (32 bit) -- expired key

2020-06-23 Thread Frank Scheiner
s/book.pdf). Nice read! I wish the maintainers of Apt would read it and stop wasting our time with these keys due to broken policies. Maybe it's configurable. Cheers, Frank

Re: R: DOSBox PowerPC JIT patch

2020-06-21 Thread Frank Scheiner
best. Thanks for reminding me of that. :-) Cheers, Frank

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 19.04.20 10:36, Rick Thomas wrote: OK On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 11:47 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: You need to use the `ofpathname` from the `mac-support` branch mentioned on [2]. You can either download it directly from [3] or `git clone https://github.com/glaubitz/powerpc-utils.git` and do a

Re: debian netinst 2020-04-18 claims No space left on device

2020-04-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
r a long time. Ok, I'll close my PR then. Cheers, Frank

Re: debian netinst 2020-04-18 claims No space left on device

2020-04-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
an.org/installer-team/partman-auto/-/merge_requests/3 I can rebase it (only later this day!), and hopefully there's no freeze in the way this time and we can merge it. ;-) Cheers Frank

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
https://github.com/glaubitz/powerpc-utils.git` and do a `git checkout mac-support` in the created dir and then use the `ofpathname` in the checked-out branch. [3]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glaubitz/powerpc-utils/mac-support/scripts/ofpathname Cheers, FranK

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-16 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 16.04.20 21:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Frank! On 4/16/20 8:49 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils package on different physical disks, e.g. sda1 and sdb1 and do the same with the ofpath command

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-16 Thread Frank Scheiner
he powerpc-utils package on different physical disks, e.g. sda1 and sdb1 and do the same with the ofpath command? Sorry, I can't be of help ATM, as my G5s are all in storage at a remote location since a while. The only Mac I currently have at hand is a Mac mini G4 (PowerMac10,1). Cheers, Frank

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-16 Thread Frank Scheiner
the GRUB configuration gets changed or updated (e.g. during package updates) GRUB uses a **working** device-to-OF-path-translator, because otherwise the next boot will fail, as the original `ofpathname` returns non-working OF paths. Cheers, Frank

Re: Failed install attempt - GRUB issue - hfsprogs missing?

2019-07-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
l a couple of things :) Maybe this requires additional steps. But your system should be bootable from OF anyhow with `boot-device` set to the correct device and GRUB image. You can set `auto-boot?` to true and use `reset-all` afterwards and your system should automatically boot from then on. Cheers, Frank

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2019-07-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 6/20/19 22:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Frank! On 6/20/19 9:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Combining the information from [1] and [2] for my 11,2 type G5 the following OF paths are returned: ``` root@powermac-g5:~# ofpathname /dev/sda2 /ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/scsi@0/sd

Re: Failed install attempt - GRUB issue - hfsprogs missing?

2019-07-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 7/2/19 16:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 7/2/19 4:32 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: There's no UDEB for hfsprogs which would allow handling HFS from the installer environment so we need to resort to using the tools from the hfsprogs DEB package from inside the target root FS d

Re: Failed install attempt - GRUB issue - hfsprogs missing?

2019-07-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
as Frank suggested 2) mount root Did you bind-mount /dev, /proc and /sys as well? I did not - I though rescue would do that for me. I think it actually does when you start a shell in the root FS from the installer menu in rescue mode. 3) get and install yaboot 3) nvsetenv boot-device

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2019-06-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
eu's patches included root@powermac-g5:~# grub-ofpathname /dev/sda2 /ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/@0:2 # The returned OF path from `ofpath` here is the singular working OF # path root@powermac-g5:~# ofpath /dev/sda2 /ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/@0/@0:2 ``` Cheers, Frank [1]

Re: apt-get update and upgrade results in unbootable G5

2019-06-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
all yaboot package] and use the commands from [1]: ``` # nvsetenv boot-device "$( ofpath /dev/ ),\grub" ``` ...and reboot. Cheers, Frank [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2019/04/msg00171.html [2]: http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20190414T164455Z/pool

Re: Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

2019-05-08 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/9/19 08:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/8/19 7:20 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Not for the 11,2 type G5s. AFAIK there never was an adapter available that would allow access to the - existing - serial console port(s). You can always plug in a USB-RS232 converter and pass "co

Re: Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

2019-05-08 Thread Frank Scheiner
rgument with a "bogus" console device (e.g. `console=tty0`). Cheers, Frank

Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2019-05-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
then on the list(s)? And I actually never had issues with gzip compressed text files. @Rick: The file was “.zip” compressed on a Mac — not “.gz’ on a Linux. Do you think that makes a difference? Rick Maybe just give it a try and compress the text file with gzip instead. Cheers, Frank

Re: Debian Installer GRUB test image available

2019-05-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/5/19 16:35, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 05/05/2019 15:02, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 5/5/19 14:47, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 05/05/2019 13:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I think the bootinfo.txt is for IBM CHRP machines while the BootX is for Macs. Ah no, that's not co

Re: Debian Installer GRUB test image available

2019-05-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
strap partition, so `/boot/grub//System/Library/CoreServices/BootX` is the full path for on-disk installations) anyhow. I think this is to get GRUB booted via the `mac-boot` command in OF. Cheers, Frank

Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2019-05-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
of spamming other lists? Cheers, Frank

Re: Debian Installer GRUB test image available

2019-05-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/5/19 08:46, Frank Scheiner wrote: @Adrian: The `hfsprogs` package was also not included in the older ISO from 2019-04-20 (I only checked the ppc64 one). Should we include it, so off-line installations work? OTOH should this even work? I.e. to install a base OS from just the netinstall ISOS

Re: Debian Installer GRUB test image available

2019-05-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
k? I.e. to install a base OS from just the netinstall ISOS? I seem to remember that you somewhere wrote, that you installed an OS just from the ISO w/o Internet access. Cheers, Frank

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-20

2019-05-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/3/19 06:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/3/19 12:06 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: The reason is that my `mk-hfs-bootstrap.sh` script relied on language dependent information. I didn't recognize - nor expect - that this information is language dependent until I used a diff

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-20

2019-05-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
hat problem in the future. [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/grub-installer/merge_requests/2/diffs?diff_id=17813&start_sha=9826ab83eede29d0cc8259e8ce5271e0fcd65fc4 Sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers, Frank

Re: Debootstrap Error : Couldn't find these debs: debian-ports-archive-keyring-udeb

2019-05-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
e this wouldn't include the 1st partition that holds the label, so adding a 11th one could still be according to the specs. Does someone have the facts available? Cheers, Frank

Re: Request for a Debian CD logo - was: Re: Sorry for the noise...

2019-05-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
logo. I wonder if the logos shown on the glass console by SPARCstations and later SPARC machines are not created the same way. Cheers, Frank

Re: debian on eServer 9111-520

2019-05-01 Thread Frank Scheiner
Oops, forgot something, see below... On 5/1/19 17:46, Frank Scheiner wrote: In addition to that I also tested with the current kernel in the experimental suite (5.0.0-trunk-powerpc64) ...and with this one I also couldn't reproduce the hangs. So this would be another option fo

Re: debian on eServer 9111-520

2019-05-01 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Alexandre, sorry for not coming back to you earlier, but I missed the time for a more in-depth look into this matter. On 4/20/19 03:00, Alexandre Bencz wrote: Frank, what PCI cards you 9111-520 has ? I don't have additional cards in my 9111-520. In the meantime I could confirm th

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-05-01 Thread Frank Scheiner
eparate disk. But if you're short on FireWire disk adapters but have plenty of Power Macs, why not? :-) If you have one of the first iPods with FireWire, these can also be used for booting IIRC. Cheers, Frank

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Frank Scheiner
e possible to define a new devalias somehow... OpenBoot has NVRAMRC, specifically `nvalias` to store a devalias in NVRAMRC. See e.g [1]. IIRC I've seen a nvramrc environment var in OF, too, but not sure. [1]: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E63648_01/html/E63649/gpsjv.html Cheers, Frank

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

2019-04-30 Thread Frank Scheiner
alias gets created for it. Cheers, Frank

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-20

2019-04-29 Thread Frank Scheiner
d try worked - not sure why though - you could just try with Italian and the very same disk a second time. The disk label should be correct now. Maybe now it will just work? Cheers, Frank

Re: Switching debian-installer CD images to GRUB

2019-04-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi again, On 4/28/19 21:56, Frank Scheiner wrote: Other question: Does anybody know if NewWorld Power Macs could maybe also boot from HFS+ instead of HFS or FAT(16)? Probably answering my second question: I just checked the OF on my 11,2 type Power Mac G5 and it - in addition to `fat-files

Re: Switching debian-installer CD images to GRUB

2019-04-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
HFS wrapper around the HFS Plus file system. This wrapper is required if the file system will be used to boot natively into Mac OS 9. ``` ...? Other question: Does anybody know if NewWorld Power Macs could maybe also boot from HFS+ instead of HFS or FAT(16)? Cheers, Frank

Re: G5 Suddenly Can't Boot Into GRUB

2019-04-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
-path is though. Can anyone with a PowerMac test it and report back? I'm actually on it, but still have some other things in the queue, so if someone is quicker, no issue. Cheers, Frank

Re: Trying 2019-04-11 on PowerMac G4 Silver - [Solved]

2019-04-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/14/19 20:54, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 4/14/19 20:28, Rick Thomas wrote: On Apr 13, 2019, at 5:39 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Do you happen to have a smaller disk (e.g. below 128 GB) available for use? Or maybe you try with a separate small (512 MiB or so) `/boot` partition directly after

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-20

2019-04-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
to a console and issue `cat /proc/partitions` and also `partmap /dev/sdb`. The full syslog of the original failing installation would have been also helpful, because it could maybe explain what happended during the partitioning step. Cheers, Frank

Re: G5 Suddenly Can't Boot Into GRUB

2019-04-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/18/19 00:26, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/18/19 12:06 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >>> My guess is an update broke something, because I don't remember >>> successfully rebooting after that, but I'm not sure. >> >> Sad to hear that. Doesn

Re: G5 Suddenly Can't Boot Into GRUB

2019-04-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
ter that, but I'm not sure. Sad to hear that. Doesn't `boot hd:2,\grub` work - assuming you have a single disk drive in your G5? What does `printenv boot-device` give back? Cheers, Frank

Re: Testing Debian install in AQUEMU

2019-04-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi David, On 4/15/19 19:29, David VANTYGHEM wrote: > > Le 14/04/2019 à 23:35, Frank Scheiner a écrit : >> Hi David, >> >> On 4/14/19 22:55, David VANTYGHEM wrote: >>> I've got this error : >>> >>> https://framapic.org/VlzE2HdYGj1h/34

Re: GRUB Error on 04-12 Images

2019-04-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/15/19 15:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/15/19 3:37 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Well, the above excerpt shows that the script tries to read an invalid path which might the result of one of the commands returning an error instead of a usable path. I haven't looked at the detail

Re: GRUB Error on 04-12 Images

2019-04-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/15/19 15:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/15/19 3:19 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Mk-hfs-bootstrap: the HFS bootstrap partition couldn't be found. Cannot continue! Exiting. Main-menu: cat: can't open /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=SDB/string of numbers/mountpoint: no su

Re: GRUB Error on 04-12 Images

2019-04-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/15/19 10:49, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/15/19 9:26 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: although this is already solved (with [1]), I wanted to notify you, that the message I'm replying to, reached me (and possibly others) only after your last message, though it was sent earlier. I

Re: GRUB Error on 04-12 Images

2019-04-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
hread, then an empty placeholder, then your actual first message, then your "middle" message. [2]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2019/04/ Cheers, Frank On 4/15/19 01:37, Noah Wolfe wrote: Okay, so I tried again with everything on default mount points, and the same error and me

Re: Testing Debian install in AQUEMU

2019-04-14 Thread Frank Scheiner
formatted. How was the partitioning layout created and what layout was actually used? Cheers, Frank

Re: Trying 2019-04-11 on PowerMac G4 Silver - [Solved]

2019-04-14 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/14/19 20:28, Rick Thomas wrote: On Apr 13, 2019, at 5:39 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Do you happen to have a smaller disk (e.g. below 128 GB) available for use? Or maybe you try with a separate small (512 MiB or so) `/boot` partition directly after the HFS bootstrap partition, so the kernel

Re: Trying 2019-04-11 on PowerMac G4 Silver

2019-04-13 Thread Frank Scheiner
oot as boot loader and no separate `/boot`? I don't have a PowerMac3,4 available, but I could try on an older Gigabit one (PowerMac3,3) with a "large" ATA hard disk (with 500 GB), maybe on Monday. Perhaps it shows similar issues. Cheers, Frank

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-09

2019-04-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
our partitioning was correct, apart from the missing mount point which you can't define in manual mode as we found out. I don't know the proper partitioning setup from the top of my head, so Frank has to comment on this. But either way, you should refrain from manual partitioning until

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-09

2019-04-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/10/19 14:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/10/19 2:48 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: UPDATE: I tested that change with [1] in "normal" installation mode and it still complains with "permission denied". It works through though, when I make "mkhfs-bootstrap.sh&q

Re: Tests on new 2019-04-09 image on PPC64

2019-04-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
uired for the HFS bootstrap partition on boot, it won't work on ppc64 anyhow, as the fsck.hfs segfaults on ppc64 (see [3]). We hope this will be fixed with the next release of hfsprogs for Debian. [3]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919532 Cheers, Frank

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-09

2019-04-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/10/19 08:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/10/19 4:53 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: /usr/lib/grub-installer/mkhfs-bootstrap.sh: Permission denied Frank, I suggest invoking your script with "sh -c", could you test this patch? --- grub-installer~ 2019-04-06 00:03:33.15382

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/7/19 15:23, David VANTYGHEM wrote: Le 07/04/2019 à 13:27, David VANTYGHEM a écrit : Le 07/04/2019 à 13:26, Frank Scheiner a écrit : On 4/7/19 11:45, David VANTYGHEM wrote: Le 06/04/2019 à 23:31, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : On 4/6/19 10:41 PM, David VANTYGHEM wrote: Done: https

Re: Trying 2019-04-06 image

2019-04-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/7/19 13:47, aggaz wrote: Il 07/04/19 13:24, Frank Scheiner ha scritto: Nice, that the boot from USB stick worked for you. What type of G5 are you using "7,2", "7,3", "9,1" or "11,2"? See [1] for details about the different models. Considering t

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
nothing happens when I type a command, what I type on the keyboard doesn't appear in the monitor : https://framapic.org/2a91JdNpZUJ8/pvKqnOoLStv9.png Any idea of what I must do ? Sorry, no idea, CCing to Mark Cave-Ayland, maybe he can help. Cheers, Frank

Re: Trying 2019-04-06 image

2019-04-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
lower part of [2] for an explanation. Unfortunately I forgot to add the newly created script (`mkhfs-bootstrap.sh`) to the list of files to be installed. So it was missing in the d-i/grub-installer udeb and not installed. [2]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2019/04/msg00067.html At this point I stopped the installation. Hope this report helps. Absolutely, this was a fine report. Cheers, Frank

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/6/19 23:22, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/6/19 10:40 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Ok, looks like there's a "local" keyword used outside of a function in a partman startup(?) file: ``` Apr  6 20:22:36 partman:   No matching physical volumes found Apr  6 20:22:36 partman

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
adapt "debian/grub-installer.install" to also install the new "mkhfs-bootstrap.sh" script. :-/ Sorry, my bad. I didn't anticipate this. I'll force push a change to fix that asap. Though this won't help for the created powerpc/ppc64 ISOs. GRUB installations

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/6/19 22:32, Dennis Clarke wrote: OKay .. I don't know what is wrong but neither expert mode or just regular "install" seems to be able to detect a disk nor run a partition tool. However the /dev/sdaX links are in place. No idea. If you're installation environment is still running, you cou

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
round where you started the grub installation step? Cheers, Frank

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/6/19 22:02, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 4/6/19 21:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/6/19 9:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Frank could you please test the image yourself and report back? Sure, I'll give it a try as soon as I find the time. I would test it myself but I still ha

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/6/19 21:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/6/19 9:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Frank could you please test the image yourself and report back? Sure, I'll give it a try as soon as I find the time. I would test it myself but I still haven't got the PowerPC machine back o

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/6/19 21:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/6/19 9:00 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 4/6/19 20:19, Dennis Clarke wrote: I just did a quick test here and ran into an inability to partition the internal disk. You can listen to me rambling about this at : https://www.youtube.com

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/6/19 21:00, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 4/6/19 20:19, Dennis Clarke wrote: I just did a quick test here and ran into an inability to partition the internal disk. You can listen to me rambling about this at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQwwexSvpY0 Just skip ahead to the 3:45 time

Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
quot; and "esc" to activate scrolling through the buffer with "up/down" or "page up/down") instead of "copying" it from the glass console. Cheers, Frank

Re: debian on eServer 9111-520

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
Small Update: On 4/6/19 14:51, Frank Scheiner wrote: I will try to check if SP operation makes a difference, if I find out how to disable MP operation, because there doesn't seem to be a SP kernel available for ppc64. Hence I'm also not 100% sure that the installer really operates in

Re: debian on eServer 9111-520

2019-04-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear Alexandre, On 3/29/19 23:46, Alexandre Bencz wrote: Hi Frank! Thanks for the awesome explanation!! I tried, using only the DASD of position 1, but an error occurred, the system was trying to detect the other DASDs I will try with other DASDs combination and with other DASDs :) I'm

Re: debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso from 18 May 2018

2019-04-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
points you consider: * not working * unclear * unknown ...for a specific installer ISO (preferably the latest one, i.e. [1] at the moment), so that we can work through this list and provide additional documentation if need be in e.g. the Debian wiki. Cheers, Frank [1]: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-27/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso

Re: debian on eServer 9111-520

2019-03-29 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 3/29/19 22:58, Alexandre Bencz wrote: Hi Frank! Thanks... I tried with the last Debian version, and, the system stuck in this: Hm, what kernel version is used here? Because there was an issue with the ipr driver somewhere between 4.17.x and 4.19.x which could be related, see the messages

Re: debian on eServer 9111-520

2019-03-29 Thread Frank Scheiner
to use the one for ppc64, though the powerpc one should also work, but will give you a 32bit userland "only". [1]: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-27/ Cheers, Frank

Re: [powerpc/ppc64] Fix d-i/grub-installer for NewWorld Power Macs (now with HFS bootstrap!)

2019-03-13 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 3/13/19 21:34, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:56 AM Frank Scheiner wrote: by popular demand for a working d-i/grub-installer on NewWorld Power Macs **with** HFS bootstrap method, I made this happen - again. :-D This time with a reduced footprint compared to the patches

[powerpc/ppc64] Fix d-i/grub-installer for NewWorld Power Macs (now with HFS bootstrap!)

2019-03-12 Thread Frank Scheiner
hange the file permissions to allow execution afterwards. Cheers, Frank

Re: old OpenServers able to use Debian?

2019-03-12 Thread Frank Scheiner
is baseline should also work out of the box on POWER5 IIC. Cheers, Frank

Re: Debian 10.0 ppc64 NETINST-1 2019/01/27 -- windfarm on PowerMac G5 7,3

2019-03-12 Thread Frank Scheiner
. Cheers, Frank

Re: old OpenServers able to use Debian?

2019-03-12 Thread Frank Scheiner
it runs the ppc64 port, too. Cheers, Frank

Re: Testing GRUB from other distros.

2019-03-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
ition? Would it even make sense? Only the contents of `/boot/grub`, but the best method would be to use `grub-install` (per default installs files to `/boot/grub`) for that and mount the FAT partition to `/boot/grub` beforehand. Cheers, Frank

Re: Testing GRUB from other distros.

2019-03-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
GRUB's kernel line as suggested by the installer itself, without improvements. Maybe try with `modprobe.blacklist=ssb`, assuming you didn't have the typo - double `d` - in your actual kernel command line. [2] also suggests that for SLES12. [2]: https://www.suse.com/de-de/support/kb/doc/?id=7018612 Cheers, Frank

Re: Testing GRUB from other distros.

2019-03-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-partitioning/blob/master/lib/disk-label.sh#L53 [2]: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-partitioning/merge_requests/1/diffs#4024213af38e279cc49152a1df786d0c5c259409_71_70 Cheers, Frank

Re: Testing GRUB from other distros.

2019-03-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
ian ISOs in the future. Cheers, Frank

Re: Installation of Debian on an iMac PowerPC

2019-02-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
the list archive ([1]) - for maybe the last two years or so. :-) Yes, I know, that's a lot of stuff, but it will give the reader a profound background and a much better understanding of the topics on this list. [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ Cheers, Frank

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/28/19 15:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/28/19 3:05 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:>> What would be the gain of implementing this? Sure, it would be possible to implement it. But for what particular reasons and why would it be required for Yaboot? I believe the current d-i/

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/28/19 14:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/28/19 2:18 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Theoretically something similar could be created - at a different place though, i.e. before the partitioning step - to support both HFS and FAT16 bootstrap methods in the installer for NewWorld Power

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/28/19 14:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/28/19 1:52 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: @Rick: I thought about something like this since Mark reported the bootstrap limits in OpenBIOS. It could in principle work similar to the switch between non-GPT and GPT capable SPARC hardware ([1

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/28/19 12:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I realize that this may require some programming, but would it be possible to have it ask a question early on (maybe at or before the beginning of partitioning) requesting the user to choose between yaboot

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/28/19 10:19, Rick Thomas wrote: When it got to trying to install grub, that failed (as expected). I chose to “continue without boot loader”. It wrapped up and ejected the CD then paused before trying to reboot. While it was paused I switched to the alt- console and did the following{2}:

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