Hello!
I'm closing this bug now since GRUB is known to work on the Mac Mini
and most other PowerMacs. There might be some problems with very old
versions of OpenFirmware, but that's not something that can be fixed
in GRUB.
Adrian
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User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Usertags: powerpc ppc64
Hello Nicolas!
Can you retest with the latest ISO image [1] on powerpc and see if this
problem still persists?
We have switched both powerpc and ppc64 over to GRUB and so far, most
users reported that GRUB works without problems excep
Il 04/03/2020 18:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto:
On 3/4/20 5:01 PM, Sante Nocciolino wrote:
At the moment I've an issue connecting with putty via SSH from my Windows
machine to Debian.
Some day ago was working, now after some updates does not work any more.
Putty says "Couldn't agree
On 3/4/20 5:01 PM, Sante Nocciolino wrote:
> At the moment I've an issue connecting with putty via SSH from my Windows
> machine to Debian.
> Some day ago was working, now after some updates does not work any more.
> Putty says "Couldn't agree a key exchange algorithm ..."
Does logging in from a
Il 04/03/2020 12:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto:
On 3/4/20 12:29 PM, Sante Nocciolino wrote:
My output looks like:
ghc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 8.8.1+dfsg1+is+8.6.5+dfsg1-2+b1
Version table:
8.8.3-1~exp2 1
1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports exper
Il 04/03/2020 12:10, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto:
Hi Sante!
On 3/4/20 10:11 AM, Sante Nocciolino wrote:
I installed Debian 10 on my Mac Mini G4 1.5Ghz Radeon 9200 with 1GB RAM.
I installed this
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-11-22/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
On 3/4/20 12:29 PM, Sante Nocciolino wrote:
> My output looks like:
>
> ghc:
> Installed: (none)
> Candidate: 8.8.1+dfsg1+is+8.6.5+dfsg1-2+b1
> Version table:
> 8.8.3-1~exp2 1
> 1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports experimental/main
> powerpc Packages
> 8.8.1+dfsg1
Hi Sante!
On 3/4/20 10:11 AM, Sante Nocciolino wrote:
> I installed Debian 10 on my Mac Mini G4 1.5Ghz Radeon 9200 with 1GB RAM.
> I installed this
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-11-22/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
> Booting with yaboot, creating a separate /boot
Hi everybody,
I installed Debian 10 on my Mac Mini G4 1.5Ghz Radeon 9200 with 1GB RAM.
I installed this
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-11-22/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
Booting with yaboot, creating a separate /boot partition in ext2 while
the root is ext4
I installed webmin
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Right I misunderstood that part. I still feel dumb, where do you get a
> serial port on any modern laptop these days ?
Another usb to serial adapter?
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On 5/23/19 11:11 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> You misunderstood what I said. I would use the converter the other way
>> around, with the USB plug on the Mac side and the RS-232 cable on the
>> PC side. That should work for a simple serial console for the kernel,
>> you won't be able to see any O
serial
> >
> > I am curious about that comment. I do not understand how one would
> > actually (physically) plug a USB-RS232 on a Mac Mini G4 ?
> >
> > Here is a picture of such device (at least how I interpret your comment):
> >
> > https://raspberr
t; actually (physically) plug a USB-RS232 on a Mac Mini G4 ?
>
> Here is a picture of such device (at least how I interpret your comment):
>
> https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/15819/how-to-identify-the-usb-to-serial-wire-mismatched
>
> Where do you plug t
can always plug in a USB-RS232 converter and pass "console=ttyUSB0"
> on the kernel command line. There is no need to use the built-in serial
I am curious about that comment. I do not understand how one would
actually (physically) plug a USB-RS232 on a Mac Mini G4 ?
Here is a p
On 2/1/19 8:57 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:38 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote:
The Lombard is NewWorld, so yaboot works.
Yes, BootX is needed for
OldWorld systems.
> On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:38 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> The Lombard is NewWorld, so yaboot works. Yes, BootX is needed for
> OldWorld systems.
Quoting [1]:
—
All PowerPC Macs from the iMac, the iBook, the Blue and White Power Mac G3 and
the Bronze Keyboard (Lombard) PowerBook G3forward ar
On 2/1/19 8:33 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
>> On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:25 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/1/19 2:19 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>>> Hi Adrian,
>>>
>>> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot
> On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:25 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> On 2/1/19 2:19 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>> Hi Adrian,
>>
>> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot
>>> or SILO except for personal preference, I do absolutely s
On 2/1/19 2:19 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot
>> or SILO except for personal preference, I do absolutely see no reason
>> why I should carry the additional maintenance burden f
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot
or SILO except for personal preference, I do absolutely see no reason
why I should carry the additional maintenance burden for it.
one reason is perhaps that on Macs GRUB is yet
On 2019-01-29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> If Yaboot actually didn't have any issues with ext4, would actually
> build against modern versions of e2fslibs-dev, supporters would have a
> point, maybe.
Those two issues (outdated e2fslibs-dev and no ext4 support) might
actually be the same is
On 1/29/19 9:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
>> Yaboot is unmaintained upstream and does not support modern ext4 features. In
>> order for Yaboot to work properly, you have to turn certain features in ext4
>> off, otherwise it won't work and the boot fails.
>
> Can you not have an ext3 boot partition a
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:07:38AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>
> > On Jan 29, 2019, at 12:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:45:10PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >> On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>> I realize that this may require some progr
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:45:10PM +0100, 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) requestin
> On Jan 29, 2019, at 12:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:45:10PM +0100, 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 (m
On 1/28/19 6:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 1/28/19 2:30 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>> Yaboot is unmaintained upstream and does not support modern ext4 features.
>>> In
>>> order for Yaboot to work properly, you have to turn certain features in ext4
>>> off, otherwise it won't work and
On 1/28/19 4:42 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>>> I believe the current d-i/yaboot-installer expects to install on a HFS
>>> bootstrap (though I assume yaboot can also boot from FAT). If the
>>> default bootstrap method is changed this would require changes to keep
>>> it working.
>>
>> Yes, but GRUB w
[ Interjecting a little... ]
Adrian wrote:
>
>Plus, having working and usable hfsprogs is still desirable because
>Macs tend to have HFS partitions, independent of the bootloader.
>
>Another difference between Yaboot and hfsprogs is that the latter is
>no longer part of unstable while hfsprogs is.
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/yaboot-ins
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/yaboot-installer expects to install on a HFS
> bootstra
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 Mac
On 1/28/19 2:30 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Yaboot is unmaintained upstream and does not support modern ext4 features. In
>> order for Yaboot to work properly, you have to turn certain features in ext4
>> off, otherwise it won't work and the boot fails.
>>
>> Unless someone picks up maintenance work
On 1/28/19 2:18 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> I don't understand this argument. GRUB works on PowerPC Macs and is
>> fully supported or am I missing something? I also works fine on SPARC
>> hardware with Sun partition tables.
>
> We implemented a switch in d-i/grub-installer that allows to install
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 3:45 AM, 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 th
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]).
I
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]).
I don't understand this argument. GRUB works on
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
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 and grub? Then
> the partitioner would automat
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 1:55 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>
>> {2} Would it be possible to have “install yaboot boot loader” be an
>> option on the main menu — parallel to “install grub bootloader”?
>> That would be less daunting for beginners who don’t have our level of
>> initiation into the Debia
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}:
OK,
So I downloaded and burned the NETINST 20190127 CD, and used it to install the
powerpc (32 bit) port on my Mac mini G4.
All went well as I followed the “install” (not “expert”) script. I manually
entered the mirror as “ftp.ports.debian.org” and the directory as
“/debian-ports/“. It
On 1/27/19 15:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/27/19 1:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
@Adrian:
choose-mirror seems to have regressed in some way that it doesn't work anymore
even with
the correct mirror data.
But the corresponding file hasn't been touched since 2017 (see [1]). Why
did
On 1/27/19 1:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> @Adrian:
>> choose-mirror seems to have regressed in some way that it doesn't work
>> anymore even with
>> the correct mirror data.
>
> But the corresponding file hasn't been touched since 2017 (see [1]). Why
> did it then work with older images (tested
Hi Rick,
On 1/27/19 13:38, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hi Frank,
On Jan 27, 2019, at 4:04 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Dear Adrian, Rick,
On 1/27/19 09:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/27/19 4:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I decided to “continue without installing a kernel” in hopes that I could
Hi Frank,
> On Jan 27, 2019, at 4:04 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>
> Dear Adrian, Rick,
>
> On 1/27/19 09:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On 1/27/19 4:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>> I decided to “continue without installing a kernel” in hopes that I could
>>> get one from the network repo
Dear Adrian, Rick,
On 1/27/19 09:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/27/19 4:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I decided to “continue without installing a kernel” in hopes that I could get
one from the network repo later on.
When it came time to choose a network repo, I had no success trying to
On 1/27/19 4:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> So I dug out an old Mac mini G4 and attempted to install the “powerpc NETINST
> 20190124-23:05” CD on it.
>
> I accepted all the defaults (no “expert” mode) until it came up with the error
> “No installable kernel was found in
So I dug out an old Mac mini G4 and attempted to install the “powerpc NETINST
20190124-23:05” CD on it.
I accepted all the defaults (no “expert” mode) until it came up with the error
“No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources”.
This occurred before it went looking for a
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:36 PM Matti Palmström wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 12:09 PM Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone tried to remove the annoying boing startup ound on a Mac
>> Mini G4 system. I have deleted the macosx partition on this machine.
>
>
On 1/8/19 6:32 PM, Finn Thain wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
Hi there,
Has anyone tried to remove the annoying boing startup ound on a Mac
Mini G4 system. I have deleted the macosx partition on this machine.
Thanks,
The ROM makes the chime sound to indicate successful
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Has anyone tried to remove the annoying boing startup ound on a Mac
> Mini G4 system. I have deleted the macosx partition on this machine.
>
> Thanks,
>
The ROM makes the chime sound to indicate successful POST.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 12:09 PM Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Has anyone tried to remove the annoying boing startup ound on a Mac
> Mini G4 system. I have deleted the macosx partition on this machine.
>
pmac-utils (or powerpc-utils from Jessie) has the tool nvsetvol to
change the volu
Hi there,
Has anyone tried to remove the annoying boing startup ound on a Mac
Mini G4 system. I have deleted the macosx partition on this machine.
Thanks,
On 09/02/18 08:34 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Just for posterity...
PowerMac G5 here :
ppc_nix$ hexdump -C
/sys/firmware/devicetree/base/rom@0,ff80/boot-rom@fff0/BootROM-version
24 30 30 30 35 2e 32 37 66 31 00 |$0005.27f1.|
000b
ppc_nix$
ppc_nix$ h
Just for posterity, I realized that system_profiler and /sys do not
provide exactly the same representation for the same information. For
comparison:
system_profiler:
Boot ROM Version: 4.8.9f4
Serial Number: YM5306NSTYX
But:
$ hexdump -C
"/sys/firmware/devicetree/base/rom@ff80/boot-ro
Hi Hartmut!
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 02:10:08PM +0200, Hartmut Obst wrote:
> I would like to donate a Mac mini (1st generation, PowerPC, MacOS 10.5) to
> the project. If you can make use of it, please tell me where to send,
> preferably in Germany because of the shipping.
I could u
Dear Debian team,
I would like to donate a Mac mini (1st generation, PowerPC, MacOS 10.5)
to the project. If you can make use of it, please tell me where to send,
preferably in Germany because of the shipping.
I wrote to hardware-donati...@debian.org, but was redirected here.
Cheers
Should have re-read before I posted.
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
> [...] but I've generally had the best success using the
> Mac OS 10 partitioning tool to set up the three Mac OS style
> partitions I use for debian, one for yaboot, one for the root
> partition, and one for
; I've never used Debian before, and I'm trying to install it on an old Mac
> Mini with a PowerPC G4 processor.
I'd suggest that you not do that, but I've been there, done that, so
it would be a bit hypocritical of me to do so.
If you have a spare AMD64 or x86 box, you'
Hi all,
I'm trying to get an Apple wireless keyboard (mod. A1016) to work under
Debian-Squeeze for powerpc installed on a Mac-mini PowerPc G4, mid 2005.
Bluetooth from Gnome-control-centre says keyboard and mouse have been
paired, but AAMOF I can use the mouse only: the keyboard i
On 08/27/2012 12:33 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Gaudenz Steinlin dijo [Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 09:31:03PM +0200]:
...
>> I guess this is #683849. Can you try a daily image?
...
> The bug you mention happens at a much later stage (at
> partman-auto-lvm, my lockup happens just after localechooser),
> alth
n (fdisk reports it is an
"Apple_partition_map".
I don't know if this happens on other PowerPC systems, but does not
allow my install to proceed any further.
Thanks,
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Date:
> "Milan" == Milan Kupcevic writes:
Milan> On 06/05/2012 08:23 AM, Christian Lynbech wrote:
Milan> boot fw/node/sbp-2/disk:,\install\yaboot
Wonderful, it worked, now my mini is happily running Debian.
As a longtime Debian user, I should have known that it was just to ask
to get a solutio
On 06/05/2012 08:23 AM, Christian Lynbech wrote:
I have an old Mac Mini G4 that I would like to install debian on, but I
am having some problems getting it to work.
The internal CD drive stopped working long ago, I have an external LaCie
FW drive but I canot get the installation to work from
Thanks for all the hints, I have several things to test out and I will
let you know how it goes.
PS
I am not trying to have both OSX and Linux, just Linux will be fine :-)
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with a sub
disk
scheme and you can not easily boot from them. Hower external USB disks
work fine.
On 05.06.2012 14:23, Christian Lynbech wrote:
> I have an old Mac Mini G4 that I would like to install debian on, but I
> am having some problems getting it to work.
>
> The internal CD drive sto
iirc think most USB-Sticks use some simplified disk
scheme and you can not easily boot from them. Hower external USB disks
work fine.
On 05.06.2012 14:23, Christian Lynbech wrote:
> I have an old Mac Mini G4 that I would like to install debian on,
> but I am having some problems getting it to
Hi,
Em Ter, 2012-06-05 às 22:36 +0200, e20100633 escreveu:
> Hello Christian,
>
> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 14:23 +0200, Christian Lynbech wrote:
> > Anybody knows what is going on or has any ideas how I can debug the
> > problem?
[...]
Well, if you are trying to boot from an external firewire cd d
Hello Christian,
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 14:23 +0200, Christian Lynbech wrote:
> Anybody knows what is going on or has any ideas how I can debug the
> problem?
I tried to install Debian on my iMac G4 too from CDs couple a mouth ago,
but I had the same issue (black screen then back to selection menu
Hi Christian,
I also have an old Mac Mini G4. I could *never* get debian to
install using CDs. I eventually burned the first DVD and managed to
install debian Lenny. The whole thread is at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/07/msg00097.html
I could also never get the installer to
I have an old Mac Mini G4 that I would like to install debian on, but I
am having some problems getting it to work.
The internal CD drive stopped working long ago, I have an external LaCie
FW drive but I canot get the installation to work from that.
The symptom I see is that if I boot with
>
> I want to set up a mac mini g4 as a video capture server, but there seems to
> be
> a problem with gspca in debian-ppc. I noticed that debian is using an older
> driver version as compared to ubuntu (2.7 vs. 2.9). Maybe I need a newer
> driver?
> Is the later
Hi all,
I posted on this subject about a month ago but got no replies.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/04/msg00058.html
I want to set up a mac mini g4 as a video capture server, but there seems to be
a problem with gspca in debian-ppc. I noticed that debian is using an older
On Don, 2011-04-28 at 17:42 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
> I tried rebuilding uswsusp on my squeeze (6.0.1) macminig4 box and
> it looks like this is making some progress (*) However this is still
> not working for me. Apparently the major issue with hack related to
> video driver should b
Hi all,
I tried rebuilding uswsusp on my squeeze (6.0.1) macminig4 box and
it looks like this is making some progress (*) However this is still
not working for me. Apparently the major issue with hack related to
video driver should be gone now (**):
...
The development of s2ram is not going to
On Die, 2011-02-08 at 10:28 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
> I am wondering if anyone knows what to install to get suspend/sleep
> to work on a debian installation on a mac mini powerpc g4 ?
It's not supported by the kernel yet. The biggest hurdle is probably
getting the GP
Hi all,
I am wondering if anyone knows what to install to get suspend/sleep
to work on a debian installation on a mac mini powerpc g4 ?
Thanks !
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mmh, maybe a good trick could be to use a crux-ppc iso to partition
the disk (you need to do it by hand using mac-fdisk as explained in
cruxppc handbook) or a gentoo-ppc iso (same as above) and after that
go forward to install your Debian.
regards,
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On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:51 AM, Gary Driggs wrote:
On Jul 19, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I'm about half-way thru an install on my Blue&White G3 ...
I don't know what caused your problem but I can't reproduce it.
I'd recommend trying it with a new businesscard image from the
above U
On Jul 19, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I'm about half-way thru an install on my Blue&White G3 ...
> I don't know what caused your problem but I can't reproduce it. I'd
> recommend trying it with a new businesscard image from the above URL.
I wonder if this is only happening with Power
Gary wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
PS: I'll also see if I can confirm your problem with whole-disk guided
partitioning, and report on that too. Have you considered filing a bug
report?
Yes. Is there a set of log files that I should include?
I'm about half-way thru an install on my Blu
I just tried the July 19 weekly build of testing and it won't detect
the GEM ethernet chipset or the SATA chipset. When I tried plugging in
a USB drive in to copy the syslog over, it could see the hfs+
partition and even report them in syslog but mounting fails even
though syslog shows the kernel p
Rick Thomas wrote:
> My testing indicates that yaboot does not support ext4. The work around is
> to have a separate partition formatted with the ext2 filesystem for your
> /boot directory (distinct from the hfs "NewWorld bootblock" partition -- see
> previous discussion in this thread).
I though
On Jul 19, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Gary wrote:
The problem occurs when letting the partitioner use the whole disk
with guided partitioning. Honestly, though, the last time I tried to
install testing (this weekend) I gave up out of frustration and used
the stable install disc since its advanced option
The problem occurs when letting the partitioner use the whole disk
with guided partitioning. Honestly, though, the last time I tried to
install testing (this weekend) I gave up out of frustration and used
the stable install disc since its advanced options let me choose from
stable, testing, or unst
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Did you happen to try playing with GRUB2 here?
Sorry, no. Not enough time right now. Maybe over the weekend...
Enjoy!
Rick
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Hi, Rick and others.
On 07/16/2010 12:19 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> One thing I did *not* do was tell it "use the whole disk and partition
> it automatically" -- I'd have to replace the hda disk with a spare to
> try that and I don't have time for such experiments just now. If
> anybody else has a
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Gary wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I
am talking
about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2
partition
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Gary wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I
am talking
about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2
partition in the
following display, with type "Apple_Bootstra
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I am talking
> about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2 partition in the
> following display, with type "Apple_Bootstrap". This is quite distinct from
> the "/bo
Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I am
talking about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2
partition in the following display, with type "Apple_Bootstrap". This
is quite distinct from the "/boot" directory in your root partition.
It is only
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On 07/15/2010 05:19 PM, robert b wrote:
> I had to have my hard drive disk on my Mac Mini replaced. It is now blank.
>
> Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed? From all I've
> read, it seems like MacOSX need
g the system.
If your hardware is working properly, installation of Debian should be routine
on your PPC Mac Mini. If you have any question about the condition of your
hardware, you can download an ISO of the Apple Hardware Test disc from
apple.com.
My favorite pastime is tweaking Debian for siz
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Gary wrote:
You wrote:
Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed? From
all I've read, it seems like
MacOSX needs to be installed before Debian can be installed. Is
this still true?'
Only if you plan on multi-booting between OS X and Debian.
You wrote:
> Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed? From all I've
> read, it seems like
> MacOSX needs to be installed before Debian can be installed. Is this still
> true?'
Only if you plan on multi-booting between OS X and Debian. If you're
only running Debian then mac-fd
I had to have my hard drive disk on my Mac Mini replaced. It is now blank.
Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed? From all I've read,
it seems like MacOSX needs to be installed before Debian can be installed. Is
this still true? I may be able to get my hands on a M
Elimar Riesebieter writes:
> * Ben Finney [090809 11:47 +1000]
> > Ah okay, I was expecting an ALSA patch from 2009-01 to already be in
> > kernel 2.6.26. Do you know that patch is in kernel 2.6.30?
>
> Ben, the Debian Kernels aren't patched with future versions of the
> kernel.
Right. I had fo
* Ben Finney [090809 11:47 +1000]
> Elimar Riesebieter writes:
>
> > What tells
> > # cat /proc/asound/version
>
> $ cat /proc/asound/version
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16.
This is without the snd-aoa_snd_powermac patch :(
>
> > Patching the debian alsa-driver sou
Le Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:16:43PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
> Ben Finney writes:
>
> If ‘snd-powermac’ would work on this machine,
> why is that not the module that gets loaded?
>
I think that is being adressed:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525946
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Ben Finney writes:
> How can I diagnose, then, why the ‘snd-aoa’ modules are loaded on this
> machine (with no explicit request or configuration that I know of),
> and why the ‘snd-powermac’ module is not loaded?
I'm still baffled by this. If ‘snd-powermac’ would work on this machine,
why is tha
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