Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

Hi, as an alternative to pressing the "c" key to boot for cd rom, you could try to press "Command,” “Option,” “O” and “F” keys simultaneously as the machine boots to access the Open Firmware interface. at open firmware prompt type : 0 > boot|/cd:/|/||/,\boot\grub\powerpc.elf select normal ins

Re: Debian on a PowerMac G5 installers broken for 2019-04-11 and 2019-11-24

Hi Dennis, i am very sorry that the installation guide did not help you; we have completed the installation on several g5s through that procedure.To better understand where it doesn't work, could you provide more information ? Regards, rt1k Il 13/04/2020 08:42, Dennis Clarke ha scritto: Ju

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

Hi Christian, you can temporarily refer to the guide published here https://forum.powerprogress.org/d/15-debian-10-updated-installation-images-for-debian-ports-2019-11-22 to complete the ins

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22

Hi Adrian, i've tested the image for ppc64 on powermac G5, it has the same problem installing the bootloader. Temporarily to solve the problem, thanks to the suggestions found in this mailing list, i've prepared a guide and a script to complete the process of installation of Grub. Here is t

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

Hi all, tested on powerbook g4, boot from usb0. Install options: - installation language : English default; - disk space : use all disk, all files on same dir; - mirror : deb.debian.org/debian-ports - software : default option; Results: detected a regression respect to previous version: grub can

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

ha scritto: Hi, On 4/27/19 23:39, roberto.guardato wrote: Hi, here are results of some tests carried out on the same hardware as above: i was able to complete the installation by selecting always proposed options. If i change the system language to italian is not possible to complete installat

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

Hi Adrian, i tried https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-04-20/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso on Mid-2004 - M9457LL/A - PowerMac7,3 - A1047 - 1969C. installation media is on CF card using a CF to Ide adapter, boot pressing 'c' key at chimes sound. Performing a normal install cdrom de

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

Hi Adrian, thank you very much for your suggestions, I will surely join that IRC channel. I would like to add to my previous message that our main architecture target is PPC64BE with Altivec, without VMX as we are currently carrying out a project for an open hardware design of a laptop based

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

Dear all I would like to provide some inside explanation, as I am the maintainer of http://repo.powerprogress.org/ Our repository is highly experimental and it was NOT created to establish a new fork of Debian, but solely to try better identifying and possibly fixing those software that has p