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 "console=tt

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

2019-05-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 "console=ttyUSB0" on the kernel command line. There is no nee

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

2019-05-08 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/8/19 13:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/8/19 1:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Sounds too much like work for an annoying little thing. I will connect a KVM to it perhaps and that may solve it without knowing why it happens.  As for a serial port or serial console, in my dreams. There

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

2019-05-08 Thread Karl
Maybe this helps? http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20040731-xserve-clusternode-linuxppc/ > Am 08.05.2019 um 13:30 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : > > On 5/8/19 1:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Sounds too much like work for an annoying little thing. >> I will connect a KVM to it perhaps an

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

2019-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/7/19 4:59 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/6/19 5:33 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Also it is Debian sid. I simply compiled a kernel on it which explains the 5.0.11 version. What's the point of posting the uname information then? The information was misleading in this context. In the

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

2019-05-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/8/19 1:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Sounds too much like work for an annoying little thing. > I will connect a KVM to it perhaps and that may solve it without > knowing why it happens.  As for a serial port or serial console, > in my dreams. There is no way that I know to attach a serial > po

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

2019-05-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/6/19 5:33 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Also it is Debian sid. I simply compiled a kernel on it which explains > the 5.0.11 version. What's the point of posting the uname information then? The information was misleading in this context. In the meantime, did you boot the machine with a serial or

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

2019-05-06 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/6/19 11:14 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On 2019-05-04 5:03 a.m., Dennis Clarke wrote: Seems like very strange behavior but if I try to boot the G5 headless it just roars the fans and sits there dead. No idea why. It's due to yaboot's ofboot.b script, see https://lists.debian.org/debian-powe

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

2019-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 2019-05-04 5:03 a.m., Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Seems like very strange behavior but if I try to boot the G5 headless > it just roars the fans and sits there dead. > > No idea why. It's due to yaboot's ofboot.b script, see https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2018/09/msg00014.html . -- E

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

2019-05-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Dennis! On 5/4/19 5:03 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Seems like very strange behavior but if I try to boot the G5 headless > it just roars the fans and sits there dead. > > No idea why. > > ppc64$ > ppc64$ uname -a > Linux hydra 5.0.11-genunix #1 SMP Fri May 3 21:37:21 UTC 2019 ppc64 GNU/Linu

Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

2019-05-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
Seems like very strange behavior but if I try to boot the G5 headless it just roars the fans and sits there dead. No idea why. ppc64$ ppc64$ uname -a Linux hydra 5.0.11-genunix #1 SMP Fri May 3 21:37:21 UTC 2019 ppc64 GNU/Linux ppc64$ uname -rm 5.0.11-genunix ppc64 ppc64$ -- Dennis Clarke