Hello,
I've been able to get the G4 working again. The issue recognizing GRUB
does not seem to be memory-related, as I tried each stick one at a time
and was never able to boot to GRUB. This shows that unless they're all
somehow faulty in the same exact way that manages to not affect normal
opera
Hi,
I can confirm that I was able to boot from the image from a USB key using
the line from Ben Westover in the previous message.
A CD-RW and two USB keys failed to work, it worked on the third USB key --
who knows why.
I have some slowness and error messages on boot ("ata1: SRST failed
(errno=-16)
Am Sonntag, dem 27.03.2022 um 16:17 -0400 schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
> I don't know about the G4's, but I know about the G5's. You cannot
> boot a G5 from USB. You have to burn a CD and boot from the CD.
Booting a G5 PowerMac 11,2 from USB works well, I don't know about the
older ones.
See this mail
Hello Sam,
If I try to boot from Open Firmware, I try "boot
usb1/disk@1:,\\grub.img" and the error after quite a long pause is
"can't OPEN: usb1/disk@1:,\\grub.img Can't open device or file"
Of course I can't rule out the possibility that I'm using Open Firmware
wrong, after some searches of t
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 04:17:35PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:15 PM Sam Imberman wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4
> > Aluminum.
> > I am using the image from
> > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/sn
Hello Sam!
On 3/27/22 22:14, Sam Imberman wrote:
> I am using the image from
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ ,
> which I burnt on a USB stick with "dd
> if=./debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso of=/dev/sdg bs=1M"
Please don't use these images, these are b
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:15 PM Sam Imberman wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4
> Aluminum.
> I am using the image from
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ ,
> which I burnt on a USB stick with "dd
> if=
Hi,
I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4
Aluminum.
I am using the image from
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ ,
which I burnt on a USB stick with "dd
if=./debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso of=/dev/sdg bs=1M"
When I boot the
Hello Ben!
On 3/25/22 21:48, Ben Westover wrote:
> A thank you goes out to all the people who have attempted to help me.
> In all the excitement of this endeavor, my G4's motherboard has died.
I'm not surprised.
> Based on previous discussion, I believe the culprit in its failure to
> load GRUB
Hello,
A thank you goes out to all the people who have attempted to help me.
In all the excitement of this endeavor, my G4's motherboard has died.
Based on previous discussion, I believe the culprit in its failure to
load GRUB was the system's memory. Upon closer inspection of the machine
duri
Hello,
Bad memory modules can actually result in such weird behavior. We've seen
similar reports
before.
When I have time, I'll run a memory test. Can this be done from OF? What
commands should I use?
You can also create a fresh chroot from unstable using debootstrap and that
pivot
the r
Hello!
On 3/25/22 12:48, Ben Westover wrote:
>> What is more likely is that you have bad memory modules in your machines and
>> Yaboot
>> just happens to use different memory regions which is why it's not affected
>> by the
>> problem.
>
> Hmmm… this computer came from my High School's IT depar
Hello Adrian,
What is more likely is that you have bad memory modules in your machines and
Yaboot
just happens to use different memory regions which is why it's not affected by
the
problem.
Hmmm… this computer came from my High School's IT department, so its RAM
was upgraded by High Schoole
Hello Ben!
On 3/25/22 01:00, Ben Westover wrote:
> I haven't been able to get any GRUB installation media to work on my PowerMac
> G4.
> I've tried Debian, Gentoo, and Arch Linux, and every time it doesn't
> recognize
> GRUB at all. Even attempting to boot manually from Open Firmware just hangs
A previous blessed ISO (Apr 17 2021) booted my IMac G4 without any troubles.
Then I just let all the defaults have their way with the machine, and wound up
with a beautiful GRUB-booting system running debian 11 that has been running
ever since.
So there is no specific “G4” problem with GRUB….
In case it's useful, here's the exact system I have:
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/specs/powermac_g4_350.html
It's running Open Firmware 3.1.1 (1.2f2 BootROM). This is what it came with,
and I was unable to find any upgrades online for this particular model.
--
Ben Westover
si
Hello Jeffrey,
Maybe you should try to reset the nvram? From the OF prompt, I believe
the commands are reset-nvram and reset-all.
Just tried that, unfortunately no effect.
Thanks,
--
Ben Westover
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 8:28 PM Ben Westover
> We're using grub-ieee1275, IEEE-1275 being the specification for Open
> Firmware. There is no issue getting GRUB to run on my G3, and most
> others are having success on their machines, but my G4 just refuses to
> recognize GRUB in any way, only yaboot
try these
https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/yaboot-howto/
http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-2.html
On March 25, 2022 12:00:36 AM UTC, Ben Westover wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I haven't been able to get any GRUB installation media to work on my
>PowerMac G4. I've tried Debian,
Hello,
try these
https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/yaboot-howto/
http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-2.html
My issue lies with actually booting the install media. These are of no
help to me; I already know how yaboot works.
it would not surprise me if the default
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