Re: Sid Install on PowerMac G5

Hi Mark, On Tue, 2024-04-30 at 09:05 +0100, md.ben...@gmail.com wrote: > smp_core99_probe > smp_core99_kick_cpu > smp_core99_kick_cpu_done > smp_core99_bringup_done This is a known, but yet unresolved regression, see [1]. Try using an older installer image, the last known to work image is the on

Sid Install on PowerMac G5

Hello, I am trying to revive a PowerMac G5 Quad CPU system but currently have no Apple GPU at this time. As such I am trying to install Debian Sid to a 1.8 DP G5 with a Radeon 9600 AGP card and swap the drive over, but I have hit an impassable barrier with the Sid installer ISO. I can

Boot lockups on PowerMac G5 with installer images

Hello, just as a heads-up: We still don't know what the underlying problem of the lockup on PowerMac G5 systems is when trying to boot the latest installer images. All I know so far is that the problem can be reproduced on QEMU and the last working image is image created 2023-06-18: &g

Support for NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 in PowerMac G5

Package: src:linux Version: 6.1.0-7-powerpc64 Please add support in future Debian powerpc64 kernels for the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card for PowerMac G5. The applicable option appears to be CONFIG_FB_RIVA=y or CONFIG_FB_RIVA=m. Adding ONFIG_FB_RIVA will allow testing of default Debian

Re: PowerMac G5 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Hello! On Sun, 2023-04-09 at 08:49 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > Please add support in the default Debian kernel for the NVIDIA GeForce > FX 5200 graphics card for PowerMac G5 systems. Please file a bug report against src:linux CC'ing this mailing list or open a pull request with

PowerMac G5 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Hello, Please add support in the default Debian kernel for the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card for PowerMac G5 systems. The applicable option appears to be CONFIG_FB_RIVA=y or CONFIG_FB_RIVA=m. And while CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA doesn't seem to be needed for the FX 5200, that option may be he

PowerMac G5 available in .au

I have a PPC mac that is surplus to me. Hasn't been turned on in several years. It's from 2005, and is probably a Power Macintosh G5 (Late 2004 (PowerMac9,1)). I'm in Perth, Western Australia. Happy to ship it to someone in Australia, if there's an Debian developer who needs it here. Also open t

Re: Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

Thank you very much, it works well now. Regards, Kristoffer -- Wysłane za pomocą Tutanota, bezpiecznej i wolnej od reklam skrzynki pocztowej.

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

i got the +b1 version of systemd this afternoon and its fixed On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 10:15 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 2/2/22 18:55, H wrote: > > Thank you Adrian! > > Try upgrading your machines, it should be fixed now. > > Adrian > > -- >

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

Hello! On 2/2/22 18:55, H wrote: > Thank you Adrian! Try upgrading your machines, it should be fixed now. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

Thank you Adrian! On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 1:00 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 2/2/22 00:11, H wrote: > > FWIW, A little bit information that might be helpful: > > > > I started journald manually via /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, no error > mess

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

Hello! On 2/2/22 00:11, H wrote: > FWIW, A little bit information that might be helpful: > > I started journald manually via /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, no error > message > to stdout and stderr, nor journalctl output. Actually journalctl still does > not > work (empty for all services). > >

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

Hello! On 2/1/22 23:59, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > on my system i get > systemd[1]: Caught , core dump failed (child 210, code=killed, > status=6/ABRT) > > prior to rebooting there were messages about journald not starting. i will > see if > i can go back to an older version of systemd. That

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

Thanks! Switching apt source to http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20220119T020551Z/ saved me. On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 4:15 PM Cameron MacPherson < cameron.macpher...@gmail.com> wrote: > i got the ppc64 version 250.3-1 of libnss-systemd libpam-systemd > libsystemd0 systemd-timesync an

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

i got the ppc64 version 250.3-1 of libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 systemd-timesync and systemd from snapshot.debian.org and installed them with dpkg -i and the system boots again after apt upgrade to 250.3-2 on reboot the machine halts before it restarts systemd[1]: Caught , dumped core

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

Hi John, FWIW, A little bit information that might be helpful: I started journald manually via /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, no error message to stdout and stderr, nor journalctl output. Actually journalctl still does not work (empty for all services). But the journald seemed started logging to

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

hi, on my system i get systemd[1]: Caught , core dump failed (child 210, code=killed, status=6/ABRT) prior to rebooting there were messages about journald not starting. i will see if i can go back to an older version of systemd. On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:33 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub..

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

On 2/1/22 23:11, H wrote: > Namely, systemd-journald and systemd-logind and some other less important > stuff. And, due to the fact that systemd-journald is unable to start, > journalctl -xn $service is empty for any services. It's a bit difficult to say what's wrong without any error messages. Th

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

Namely, systemd-journald and systemd-logind and some other less important stuff. And, due to the fact that systemd-journald is unable to start, journalctl -xn $service is empty for any services. On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:09 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hell

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

Hello! On 2/1/22 22:47, H wrote: > If you apt update && apt upgrade, or worse, try to install debian with a > NETINST > image, by default you will be left in a broken system, complaining about some > systemd service being unable to start. To make it worse, systemd-journald is > one > of the comp

sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

If you apt update && apt upgrade, or worse, try to install debian with a NETINST image, by default you will be left in a broken system, complaining about some systemd service being unable to start. To make it worse, systemd-journald is one of the components that is broken so it is a struggle to get

Re: Powermac G5 Sid Grub

OK, answering my own question it appears this was just a case of the install media not fully working. > On 25 Jan 2022, at 17:43, Dan Whitehouse wrote: > > Hi, I’m having trouble installing Sid on my G5. > The issue is documented in this YouTube video: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ugfq

Powermac G5 Sid Grub

Hi, I’m having trouble installing Sid on my G5. The issue is documented in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ugfqj1ank And it appears to be related to hfsprogs. If anyone can offer advice or a more Debian centric workaround I’d be

Re: ppc-64 (powermac g5) question

Hello Stan! On 8/20/21 11:03 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > I guess I thought it was powerpc-specific since 32-bit powerpc systems > don't seem to have the same issue with Debian SID packages requiring > systemd. There should be no differences between powerpc and ppc64 in this regard. You may have in

Re: ppc-64 (powermac g5) question

Hi Adrian, I guess I thought it was powerpc-specific since 32-bit powerpc systems don't seem to have the same issue with Debian SID packages requiring systemd. But thanks for your reply; I'll send a message to the debian-user list. -Stan On 8/20/21 2:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > He

Re: ppc-64 (powermac g5) question

Hello Stan! On 8/20/21 10:51 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian SID on a Power Mac G5 system using the Apr > 2021 CD. > > After installing a basic text-only system, I replaced systemd with > sysvinit-core. However, most things that I try to install seem to > require systemd.

Re: Installing snapshot 2021-01-03 on a PowerMac G5

Hello everyone, On 10 Jan 2021, at 23:48, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: Regarding the manual installation of GRUB I took some time to study that tutorial (and try some first steps), but it looks like that is for those knowing the powerful way of the boot path warrior. I am showing great respect

Re: Installing snapshot 2021-01-03 on a PowerMac G5

ware_(PowerPC) Last question in advance: I saw sid PPC64 ships kernel version 5.10. Is the following issue already patched or am I going to run into that one as well and should wait until kernel has been updated to at least 5.10.2 (my PowerMac G5 still runs a GeForce 6600 currently)?

Re: Installing snapshot 2021-01-03 on a PowerMac G5

The grub-installer in this ISO image is not the correct one which has been patched for PowerMac support. I will fix that later. Try installing GRUB manually: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB_on_Open_Firmware_(PowerPC) > Last question in advance: I saw sid PPC64 ships kernel version 5.10. Is the

Installing snapshot 2021-01-03 on a PowerMac G5

ready patched or am I going to run into that one as well and should wait until kernel has been updated to at least 5.10.2 (my PowerMac G5 still runs a GeForce 6600 currently)? https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210517 Thanks for your support in advance Johannes

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

Hi, I'm trying to compile some packages on my own, using the Debian dak (with postgresql) tool for the local repository. I had a bit of trouble installing dak, but got it working. Now, following the instructions in the READme, I see: import some developer keys. Either import from keyservers

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

Hi Thomas! First of all, you should use a new thread for your discussion as your topic seems unreleated. On 5/15/20 5:00 AM, Thomas Grzybowski wrote: > import some developer keys. > Either import from keyservers (here ):: > > # gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /srv/dak/keyrings/upl

Re: installation-reports: - succesfull installation on iMac G5 and powermac G5 Quad (ppc64)

Hi Adrian, On 4/27/20 11:46 AM, MH wrote: 1) grub partition is not visible on mac early Startup Manager. solution is simple - to "bless: file "/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX" on grub partition. Unfortunatelly I dont't know how to do it from debian itself. hfsutils: hattrib can "bless" dir

Re: installation-reports: - succesfull installation on iMac G5 and powermac G5 Quad (ppc64)

Hi Adrian, On 4/27/20 9:04 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/27/20 8:52 AM, MH wrote: I succesfully install debian with grub via NETINST.iso. On both (iMac and powermac G5) installer work out of the box, I tested guided and manual partitioning. Installation reports send (958835,958844

Re: installation-reports: - succesfull installation on iMac G5 and powermac G5 Quad (ppc64)

Hi Martine! On 4/27/20 8:52 AM, MH wrote: > I succesfully install debian with grub via NETINST.iso. On both (iMac and > powermac G5) > installer work out of the box, I tested guided and manual partitioning. > Installation reports send (958835,958844). Great to hear! > Thank yo

installation-reports: - succesfull installation on iMac G5 and powermac G5 Quad (ppc64)

Hi Aadrian, I succesfully install debian with grub via NETINST.iso. On both (iMac and powermac G5) installer work out of the box, I tested guided and manual partitioning. Installation reports send (958835,958844). Thank you very much for great work. I have only two minor things, but they

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

On 4/15/20 8:25 PM, Alexandre Bencz wrote: > I had to use trusted, because my installation was made from an older version > ... and it was giving an error The correct fix is to update your archive keyring: # wget http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-key

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

I had to use trusted, because my installation was made from an older version ... and it was giving an error Alexandre S. Bencz +55 {15} 991-707-384 On 15/04/2020 15:22, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! On 4/15/20 7:35 PM, Alexandre Bencz wrote: Here, I'm using this 3 repository: de

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

Hi! On 4/15/20 7:35 PM, Alexandre Bencz wrote: > Here, I'm using this 3 repository: > > deb [trusted=yes] http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable main > deb [trusted=yes] http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main > > deb [trusted=yes] http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-p

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

Here, I'm using this 3 repository: deb [trusted=yes] http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable main deb [trusted=yes] http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main deb [trusted=yes] http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports experimental main Alexandre S. Bencz +55 {15} 991-707

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

On 4/15/20 8:01 AM, Martin Hřebec wrote: > Hello, I have Powermac G5 Quad, and latest powerbook G4 ang iMac G5- I will > gladly test it also. > I have on this machines MorphOS and Lubuntu 16.04, I didn't install Debian > yet, becouse of installation difficulties. > What

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

Yaboot's ofpath [1] over to ofpathname from the powerpc-utils package [2] isn't rocket science. Just a lot of tedious stupid typing and testing work. John, I have a PowerMac G5 and would be happy to help with testing. If you can provide a bootable ISO with diagnostics, I am happy to

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

cket science. Just a lot of >> tedious stupid typing and testing work. > John, I have a PowerMac G5 and would be happy to help with testing. > > If you can provide a bootable ISO with diagnostics, I am happy to run > it and report back. Something like a GRUB dry run tha

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

] over to ofpathname > from the powerpc-utils package [2] isn't rocket science. Just a lot of > tedious stupid typing and testing work. John, I have a PowerMac G5 and would be happy to help with testing. If you can provide a bootable ISO with diagnostics, I am happy to run it and report

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

On 4/13/20 7:00 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/13/20 8:42 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:> Just spent the last five or six hours going in circles on this and both installers are broken. They seem unable to install grub and I did try the instructions at https://forum.powerprogress.org/d/15-d

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

On 4/13/20 8:42 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:> > Just spent the last five or six hours going in circles on this and both > installers are > broken. They seem unable to install grub and I did try the instructions at > https://forum.powerprogress.org/d/15-debian-10-updated-installation-images-for-debian

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

On 4/13/20 4:07 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> So, I just used a more old image, like this one: >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-04-11/ >> After install, I just added the experimental repository and did a apt update >> && apt upgrade! > > So that "just works"(tm)  ?? The older imag

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

Just spent the last five or six hours going in circles on this and both installers are broken. They seem unable to install grub and I did try the instructions at https://forum.powerprogress.org/d/15-debian-10-updated-installation-images-for-debian-ports-2019-11-22 That does not work either.

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

On 4/13/20 4:00 AM, Alexandre Bencz wrote: Tomorrow I will power on my G5 and give you the URLs that I use in sources.list OKay thank you. For now I can tell you the instructions at : https://forum.powerprogress.org/d/15-debian-10-updated-installation-images-for-debian-ports-2019-11-22 D

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

Tomorrow I will power on my G5 and give you the URLs that I use in sources.list Alexandre S. Bencz +55 {15} 991-707-384 On 12/04/2020 23:27, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 4/13/20 2:23 AM, Alexandre Bencz wrote: When I was doing the installation ... I had problems accessing the deb.debian.org/debian

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

On 4/13/20 2:23 AM, Alexandre Bencz wrote: When I was doing the installation ... I had problems accessing the deb.debian.org/debian-ports repository ... so I did the installation without doing the upgrades ... after installing it, I added the repositories and checked them as trusted ... and don

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

When I was doing the installation ... I had problems accessing the deb.debian.org/debian-ports repository ... so I did the installation without doing the upgrades ... after installing it, I added the repositories and checked them as trusted ... and done, I successfully updated and upgraded Al

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

Yeap! On Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 23:07 Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 4/13/20 1:43 AM, Alexandre Bencz wrote: > > I got the same problem... > > Glad someone else is trying this ! > > I thought about it a bit and felt that the grub command line was a > symptom of bad luck and bad timing. One must hold down

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

On 4/13/20 1:43 AM, Alexandre Bencz wrote: I got the same problem... Glad someone else is trying this ! I thought about it a bit and felt that the grub command line was a symptom of bad luck and bad timing. One must hold down the "c" key on the keyboard to get the G5 to boot from the CDROM/DVD

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

Also the fans begin to roar neatly. Running "ls" at the grub command prompt will list a pile of device paths but none of that makes much sense. I will try a different PowerMac G5 but maybe what I need is a very different netinst booatable iso image.  No idea. Also, wow, the fans really do roar. Dennis

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

gin to roar neatly. Running "ls" at the grub command prompt will list a pile of device paths but none of that makes much sense. I will try a different PowerMac G5 but maybe what I need is a very different netinst booatable iso image. No idea. Also, wow, the fans really do roar. Dennis

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

te the installation. Regards, rt1k Il 11/04/2020 07:10, Christian Calderon ha scritto: I have a Late 2005 PowerMac G5 and I'm having some trouble installing Debian on it. I've installed debian on this machine before but this time I'm hitting some unexpected snags. I started by d

R: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

G5 I have a Late 2005 PowerMac G5 and I'm having some trouble installing Debian on it. I've installed debian on this machine before but this time I'm hitting some unexpected snags. I started by downloading the ppc64 iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/pp

Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

I have a Late 2005 PowerMac G5 and I'm having some trouble installing Debian on it. I've installed debian on this machine before but this time I'm hitting some unexpected snags. I started by downloading the ppc64 iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ppc64/iso-cd

Re: Powermac G5

On 3/18/20 12:12 PM, Alessandro Pansera wrote: > Hi, i have a big problem with Lubuntu installation on my power PC (Macg5 > late 2005 GeForce 6600). Yaboot works but screen crashes but installer USB > keep blinking. Please help me I recommend using this image: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage

Re: Re: Powermac G5

Hello, At yaboot prompt, could you try type install64 instead of install? Thanks, Hao On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 4:30 AM Alessandro Pansera wrote: > Hi, i have a big problem with Lubuntu installation on my power PC (Macg5 > late 2005 GeForce 6600). Yaboot works but screen crashes but installer US

Re: Re: Powermac G5

Hi, i have a big problem with Lubuntu installation on my power PC (Macg5 late 2005 GeForce 6600). Yaboot works but screen crashes but installer USB keep blinking. Please help me

Re: Problem installing Debian PowerPC Jessie on PowerMac G5 7,3 PCI-X

enter >> anything manually, like it does by default in the ppc64 installations. >> >> Thanks, >> Noah >> >>> On May 18, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> >>> I’m trying to install Debian Jessie ppc64 8.11 on my PowerMac G5 >>>

Re: Problem installing Debian PowerPC Jessie on PowerMac G5 7,3 PCI-X

18, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> I’m trying to install Debian Jessie ppc64 8.11 on my PowerMac G5 >> 7,3 machine for comparison purposes with Adrian’s 10.0 “ports”. >> >> I downloaded the PowerPC 8.11 DVD and used it to install a default >> system.

Re: Problem installing Debian PowerPC Jessie on PowerMac G5 7,3 PCI-X

On May 18, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > I’m trying to install Debian Jessie ppc64 8.11 on my PowerMac G5 > 7,3 machine for comparison purposes with Adrian’s 10.0 “ports”. > > I downloaded the PowerPC 8.11 DVD and used it to install a default > system. The only t

Problem installing Debian PowerPC Jessie on PowerMac G5 7,3 PCI-X

I’m trying to install Debian Jessie ppc64 8.11 on my PowerMac G5 7,3 machine for comparison purposes with Adrian’s 10.0 “ports”. I downloaded the PowerPC 8.11 DVD and used it to install a default system. The only thing out of the ordinary was that I had to manually enter the packages mirror

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hi Rick, sorry, a little late. On 2/10/19 01:28, Rick Thomas wrote: I just tried installing the 2019/01/27 ppc64 NETINST-1 on my Powermac G5 7,3. It booted OK and went thru the preliminaries, but about the time it got to loading the partitioner, the windfarm fans started going crazy and I

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

I just tried installing the 2019/01/27 ppc64 NETINST-1 on my Powermac G5 7,3. It booted OK and went thru the preliminaries, but about the time it got to loading the partitioner, the windfarm fans started going crazy and I had to shut it down. I seem to remember that there was a module I could

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

On 1/13/19 9:10 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/14/19 12:41 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Ah yes ... this all seems familiar to me now. OKay .. going to try again and perhaps with a separate ext2fs /boot if possible.  Not sure.  The Apple PowerMac G5 units want a strange partition table

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

On 1/14/19 12:41 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Ah yes ... this all seems familiar to me now. > OKay .. going to try again and perhaps with a separate ext2fs /boot if > possible.  Not sure.  The Apple PowerMac G5 units want a strange > partition table with an Apple boot slice and I can not

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

use Yaboot doesn’t like modern ext4 filesystem features. You need to use ext3 for the boot partition. This is why we are replacing Yaboot with GRUB. Ah yes ... this all seems familiar to me now. OKay .. going to try again and perhaps with a separate ext2fs /boot if possible. Not sure. The

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

> On Jan 14, 2019, at 12:29 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> On 1/13/19 4:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> On 1/13/19 10:48 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> Trying to locate a mirror and I see : >>> >>> ~ # tail /var/log/syslog >>> Jan 13 21:44:29 anna-install: Installing apt-mirror-setup

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

On 1/13/19 4:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/13/19 10:48 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Trying to locate a mirror and I see : ~ # tail /var/log/syslog Jan 13 21:44:29 anna-install: Installing apt-mirror-setup Jan 13 21:45:12 choose-mirror[4695]: DEBUG: command: wget --no-verbose http://

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

On 1/13/19 10:58 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > oops.  too late.  I am well into the process and the expert mode seems > to be working well.  Other than mirror selection which has 'testing' > forced into the URL string.  Should be 'sid' or 'experimental'. If you can find the code in debian-installer w

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

On 1/13/19 4:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/13/19 10:41 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 1/13/19 2:00 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: You should be able to use the old images though: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ That boots neatly and I am easily able to get remote

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

On 1/13/19 10:48 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Trying to locate a mirror and I see : > > ~ # tail /var/log/syslog > Jan 13 21:44:29 anna-install: Installing apt-mirror-setup > Jan 13 21:45:12 choose-mirror[4695]: DEBUG: command: wget --no-verbose > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/test

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

On 1/13/19 10:41 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 1/13/19 2:00 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> You should be able to use the old images though: >> >>> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ > > That boots neatly and I am easily able to get remote expert install > going over ssh.  Whom ever

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

On 1/13/19 4:42 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! On 1/13/19 10:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: I will give that a try right away. What lines should one have in the /etc/apt/sources.list to make life somewhat easy ?   I have had some difficulties with local university mirror sites mostly bec

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

Hi! On 1/13/19 10:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I will give that a try right away. What lines should one have in the > /etc/apt/sources.list to make life somewhat easy ?   I have had some > difficulties with local university mirror sites mostly because the > architecture simply doesn't exist there

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

On 1/13/19 2:00 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: You should be able to use the old images though: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ That boots neatly and I am easily able to get remote expert install going over ssh. Whom ever invented that installer feature is my personal hero.

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

On 1/13/19 2:00 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Dennis! On 1/13/19 6:38 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Trivial question : is there an actual iso install image for the latest buster/sid ppc or ppc64 that will actually install ( and run? ) on ye elderly PowerMac G5 ? The nice thing to see

Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

Hi Dennis! On 1/13/19 6:38 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Trivial question : is there an actual iso install image for the latest > buster/sid ppc or ppc64 that will actually install ( and run? ) on > ye elderly PowerMac G5 ? > > The nice thing to see would be a grub2 test but even li

Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

Trivial question : is there an actual iso install image for the latest buster/sid ppc or ppc64 that will actually install ( and run? ) on ye elderly PowerMac G5 ? The nice thing to see would be a grub2 test but even lilo will get the process moving along. Dennis

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

This all started because of this thing : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/macintosh?id=3e7bed52719de4b5b5fb900869e293eae0bc3f3e Which gets referenced here : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199471 I still don't know if it works or

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

Adrian is right. Building a kernel for Debian isn‘t really difficult. I work for a first level Linux support and I can do it too. — Christian Sent from my iPhone > On 12. Oct 2018, at 16:39, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> On 10/12/2018 10:28 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> On 10/12/18 4:1

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

And, FWIW, we currently have a rather nasty linker bug on 32-bit PowerPC which needs to be tracked down and fixed. It prevents GHC and ffmpeg from being built. > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ghc&arch=powerpc&ver=8.6.1%2Bdfsg1-1&stamp=1538147985&raw=0 > https://buildd.debian.org/s

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

ain, the documentation already exists. > My real interest is in RISC-V anyways.  Just wait until I climb on top > of that. The process of building a RISC-V kernel isn't any different from building a PowerPC kernel. >>> Would be nice if the "Debian way" were written

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