Re: G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-28 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Apr 28, 2016, at 5:15 AM, Andrew Tarr wrote: > So I have now successfully installed Debian Jessie to my Mac Mini. … > The resolution is low, so everything's huge, but I'm sure I can make that > better somehow... Take a look at the “fbset” package. With it you can do command line stuff

Re: G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-28 Thread Andrew Tarr
OK, Mathieu asked me off-list about whether my USB key was HFS formatted, and I finally clicked! I had been doing dd ... of=/dev/sda1 whereas I should have been doing it to /dev/sda This of course makes all the difference, OpenFirmware was seeing a DOS-style partition scheme and getting confu

Aw: Re: G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-27 Thread arc
Thanks to those who responded.    boot usb1/disk:,\install\yaboot   gets me a   Warning: Sector Size Mismatch! can't OPEN boot usb1/disk:,\install\yaboot   message, which is what has happened before.     I did get further with the installer from the network boot! It got up to 'detecting h

Re: G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-26 Thread Rick Thomas
If your G4 mini is having trouble with the internal hard-drive, you might try installing to an external FireWire hard drive. Booting from FireWire is a supported feature of the NewWorld Mac OpenFirmware. While booting from USB is possible with some models, it’s not as well supported. My G4 mi

Re: G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-26 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 04/26/2016 05:53 AM, a...@vorsicht-bissig.de wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have been trying to resurrect my MacMini. > Is your internal CD/DVD broken? People had success installing from an external firewire CD/DVD drive and/or from a memory stick containing raw debian installer iso as is desc

Re: G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-26 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:53 AM, wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have been trying to resurrect my MacMini. This is not clear to me, but my Mac Mini G4 does boot nicely from a properly prepared USB key: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2016/04/msg00081.html Pay attention that on your HFS

G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-26 Thread arc
across the network, but fails when it sets the system clock.    The last message displayed during boot of the installation media is:    [ 1.731730] rtc-generic rtc-generic : settng system clock to 2016-04-22 21:43:04 UTC   Or something like that.    It's a bit exciting to get this far

inaccurate system clock when HZ != 100

2005-10-28 Thread Eric Cooper
I've been running vanilla kernel.org kernels on my PowerMac 7600. With one of the recent 2.6.14-rcX versions, the default value for HZ could be set to 250 or 1000 for non-interactive machines, with 250 being suggested. So I started running that version, and I noticed that my system clo

Re: System clock

2004-07-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I'm experiencing the same problem, not only when coming back from > > suspend. ntp-server is doing all kinds of stuff, but seems to refuse to > > do anything with my clock, running ntpdate works. This problem was > > introduced since 2.6 for me. > > Plain ntp

Re: System clock

2004-07-20 Thread david howe
van Tilburg wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:46:07AM +0100, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > > > My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas why this > > > might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember rightly OSX > > > uses some so

Re: System clock

2004-07-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:46:07AM +0100, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > > My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas why this > > might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember rightly OSX > &

Re: System clock

2004-07-20 Thread Sebastian Tennant
>>>My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas why this >>>might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember >>>rightly OSX uses some sort of network time server to set the system >>>clock. Is there an equivalent GN

Re: System clock

2004-07-20 Thread Paul van Tilburg
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:46:07AM +0100, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas why this > might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember rightly OSX > uses some sort of network time server to set the system clock.

Re: System clock

2004-07-20 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to James Tappin, on Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:54:01 +0100, >On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:46:07 +0100 >Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >ST>My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas >ST>why this >ST> might be? A battery

Re: System clock

2004-07-20 Thread James Tappin
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:46:07 +0100 Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ST> My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas ST> why this ST> might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember ST> rightly OSX uses some sort of network

System clock

2004-07-20 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi all, My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas why this might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember rightly OSX uses some sort of network time server to set the system clock. Is there an equivalent GNU/Linux compatible service out there? sebyte

Re: Hangs on setting the system clock

2004-01-25 Thread Christian Bolstad
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Steven Schlansker wrote: > I just compiled the kernel-source-2.4.22 package into another custom > kernel (still trying to get my card to work again, so I went back to > 2.4 but a later version), but as it boots up it hangs on the line > "Setting the Syste

Re: Hangs on setting the system clock

2004-01-24 Thread Steven Schlansker
kernel-source-2.4.22 package into another custom kernel (still trying to get my card to work again, so I went back to 2.4 but a later version), but as it boots up it hangs on the line "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." Are there any known issues with this? A

Hangs on setting the system clock

2004-01-24 Thread Steven Schlansker
I just compiled the kernel-source-2.4.22 package into another custom kernel (still trying to get my card to work again, so I went back to 2.4 but a later version), but as it boots up it hangs on the line "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." Are there

Re: system clock drift in Debian 3.0r2 (Woody) on PB G4

2004-01-01 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 13:32, Bill Edwards wrote: > At 11:45 AM +1100 1/2/04, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >es, timebase and decrementer run at the same rate. How is the > >kernel calibrating on your machine ? Using the device-tree or > >the VIA ? > > > >Ben. > > Thanks very much for your email!

Re: system clock drift in Debian 3.0r2 (Woody) on PB G4

2004-01-01 Thread Bill Edwards
At 11:45 AM +1100 1/2/04, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: es, timebase and decrementer run at the same rate. How is the kernel calibrating on your machine ? Using the device-tree or the VIA ? Ben. Thanks very much for your email! Sorry to ask a newbie question--how would I tell how the kernel

Re: system clock drift in Debian 3.0r2 (Woody) on PB G4

2004-01-01 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 06:05, Bill Edwards wrote: > My system clock is losing more than one minute out of every five > minutes. Here are my system details: > > Hardware: Powerbook G4 667 MHz > Debian:3.0r2 (Woody), PowerPC > Kernel:2.4.23 (benh) > > I have also

system clock drift in Debian 3.0r2 (Woody) on PB G4

2004-01-01 Thread Bill Edwards
My system clock is losing more than one minute out of every five minutes. Here are my system details: Hardware: Powerbook G4 667 MHz Debian:3.0r2 (Woody), PowerPC Kernel:2.4.23 (benh) I have also seen this behavior under Yellow Dog Linux 3.0, which I believe is also running a 2.4.x

Re: system clock runs too fast on pb12"

2003-05-31 Thread Thomas Otto
I now experienced that the system clock of my PowerBook 12" runs too fast. I'm adjusting it nearly once an hour using ntpdate now and it seems to change about +1m per hour. I hope this isn't a hardware problem. No, the kernel is making up for the hardware clock which he *thin

Re: system clock runs too fast on pb12"

2003-05-31 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am Sam, 2003-05-31 um 19.48 schrieb Sebastian Raible: > I now experienced that the system clock of my PowerBook 12" runs too fast. > I'm adjusting it nearly once an hour using ntpdate now and it seems to > change about +1m per hour. If there's a file "/etc/adjtime&quo

system clock runs too fast on pb12"

2003-05-31 Thread Sebastian Raible
Hi, thanks for your answers on my last posting. I now experienced that the system clock of my PowerBook 12" runs too fast. I'm adjusting it nearly once an hour using ntpdate now and it seems to change about +1m per hour. I hope this isn't a hardware problem. I run unstable a