yaboot installation media

of GRUB, it would help me out tremendously. Thanks, -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: yaboot installation media

success on their machines, but my G4 just refuses to recognize GRUB in any way, only yaboot. Thanks for your quick response, -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: yaboot installation media

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 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: yaboot installation media

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.

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own special 2022 yaboot image. Thanks for all this useful info, -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: yaboot installation media

in my original attempt; I got stuck in the part where I had to patch d-i for yaboot. These new ideas of a memory fix and using debootstrap for a new chroot give me hope. Thanks again, -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: yaboot installation media

he machine during its autopsy, I found that the memory was mixed and matched with all four sticks having different capacities, speeds, and brands. Seemingly the only PowerMac in the world that fails to boot GRUB has officially kicked the bucket. Thanks for all the help, -- Ben Westover OpenPGP

Re: yaboot installation media

t was even cited in the Debian Wiki as being a massive help). [1] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.2/macppc/INSTALL.html Regards, -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GRUB Multiboot

ginal OS X boot partition. I don't know if GRUB has the ability to do that, but it would certainly be useful. -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: yaboot installation media

iagnose my G4's complete inability to recognize or boot GRUB? Thanks, -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Apple PowerPC G5 7,2 No GUI NVIDIA FX 5200

> and > > X, > > No screen detected > > This may help: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > <https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers> > > When I had problems with the NVIDIA card, I took the NVIDIA card out, >

Re: Boot fails

Hello David, On August 6, 2022 2:06:41 PM EDT, David VANTYGHEM wrote: >I've got this error : https://ibb.co/tLfS8np > >Is it a problem with my DVD? How much RAM do you have installed? This message implies that you either don't have enough RAM or the RAM is malfunctionin

Re: Boot fails

know of for PowerPC, especially not Big Endian PPC. -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Boot fails

Hi David, On 8/11/22 7:54 AM, David VANTYGHEM wrote: > I upgraded RAM to 1 Go and it's booting now. Thank you for your help. > > I installed Debian, all is OK, excepted with ATI128, Xorg doesn't start. Did you install the correct driver xserver-xorg-video-r12

Re: Boot fails

ll be added to Debian. >Now, I will test Debian in a Qemu VM. It has been in Debian for decades… -- Ben Westover signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Boot fails

/05/msg00156.html https://packages.debian.org/sid/xserver-xorg-video-r128 The email you sent is two years old and says it will be re-added "soon". As you can see, the package is alive and well. -- Ben Westover signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Seeking for help with Debian 11 (2022-03-28 image) - can't install GRUB

uot;Select and install software" and then also during GRUB installation.. >Maybe I am missing something during installation? (It seems straightforward, >but fails nevertheless) Can you provide any specific errors or logs? Thanks, -- Ben Westover signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Seeking for help with Debian 11 (2022-03-28 image) - can't install GRUB

tory. Tell tar to output somewhere else, like your home directory, with -C. -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Seeking for help with Debian 11 (2022-03-28 image) - can't install GRUB

guess is it looks like I don't actually have read > permission to do anything with that "install" directory.. Use sudo/root -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Xorg segfaults on iMac G3 with Rage 128 Pro

x27;m running kernel 6.1.0-7-powerpc with Mesa 22.3.6. Does anyone how to fix this problem? Thanks, -- Ben Westover [ 154.957] X.Org X Server 1.21.1.7 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 154.958] Current Operating System: Linux iMacG3 6.1.0-7-powerpc #1 Debian 6.1.20-2 (2023-04-08) ppc [ 15

Re: Xorg segfaults on iMac G3 with Rage 128 Pro

it so there's not enough time to launch gdb before it's already segfaulted. It sounds like these tips are for when Xorg launches and runs for a bit but crashes when a specific action is performed. -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Xorg segfaults on iMac G3 with Rage 128 Pro

I successfully ran Xorg on this machine with was jessie, so it's not like the r128 driver has never worked on PowerPC. I don't know how recent this breaking change was since I never ran Xorg on my Debian sid install until now. Hopefully this information is useful to someone who knows

Re: Xorg segfaults on iMac G3 with Rage 128 Pro

s 0x48 (gdb) print info->VBIOS[0x49] Cannot access memory at address 0x49 -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Xorg segfaults on iMac G3 with Rage 128 Pro

(EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 Is this something I can fix, or does modern Xorg just need more VRAM? Thanks, -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Can't upgrade kernel or GRUB: /boot/grub is a read-only filesystem

onment's ISO was from December 2022. Does anyone know what the problem here could be? Thanks, -- Ben Westover [1] https://archlinuxpower.org OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Can't upgrade kernel or GRUB: /boot/grub is a read-only filesystem

a problem other than just silently mounting it read-only. Thanks for your suggestion! -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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would've found this out sooner. Thanks, -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

], so unless they're inaccurate I would assume Linux still supports PREp. -- Ben Westover [1] https://github.com/kth5/archpower/wiki/Installation-%7C-KVM-or-PReP OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

me this is what yaboot does as well, telling Open Firmware to load OS X's blessed binary instead of the second stage of yaboot and Linux from there. All we need to do is find a way to support Open Firmware chainloading from within GRUB. -- Ben Westover [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Supported-kernels

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

Hello, On May 30, 2023 12:42:39 PM EDT, Linux User #330250 wrote: > On 05/30 2023 17:13 Stan Johnson wrote: > > On 5/30/23 7:16 AM, Ben Westover wrote: > >> The GRUB Manual [1] says that the PPC port of GRUB only supports booting > >> Linux at the moment. AFAIK boo

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Ben Westover wrote: AFAIR yaboot does its magic within the CHRP boot script. It would be relatively easy to add an option to load GRUB, I guess. The "chain" would then start by choosing Mac OS (Classic), Mac OS X, or GRUB, via the yaboot CHRP script. But then, GRU

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

if it should really be included in Debian at all. -- Ben Westover signature.asc Description: PGP signature

How are CHRP bootinfo icons formatted?

icon. The developers of yaboot and GRUB must know, since they include the logos in the bootinfo files in their source code. Does anyone have any information that could point me in the right direction? Thanks, -- Ben Westover [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB_on_Open_Firmwar

Re: How are CHRP bootinfo icons formatted?

On 6/1/23 4:18 PM, Ben Westover wrote: I have no idea what the second one is supposed to be and how I can create it. One thing I tested was just making the first and second bitmaps the exact same. When I did this, it produced what looked like a color-inverted version of the image. So, the

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

in debian-installer that runs os-prober and installs the script if it finds any OS X or OS 9 installations. It could even use os-prober to find out which partition(s) the OS(es) are on and modify the script accordingly. -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

talling Debian alongside OS X is replace /boot/grub/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX with this file, rebless it if needed, and now you have an easy dual-boot solution! -- Ben Westover MacRISC MacRISC3 MacRISC4 PowerPC GNU/Linux First Stage Bootstrap : .printf fb8-write drop ; : bootgrub &qu

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

Hello, It turns out that adding &device; alone is not enough since it refers to only the drive and not the partition along with it. &device;:&partition; is what was actually needed. Fixed script is attached. -- Ben Westover MacRISC MacRISC3 MacRISC4 PowerPC GNU/Linux

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

B drive unless it's in that specific location. Another bonus is if the script is in that directory along with a 'Volume Name Icon' file it will have a nice label of your choosing under the icon like OS X does. -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How are CHRP bootinfo icons formatted?

x27;t understand why there would be unique information in the second bitmap for both the Tux and the OS X logo when changing it doesn't seem to do anything with the Debian or GNU logos. I wish I could find some Apple documentation somewhere that could help to solve the mysteries of bo

Re: How are CHRP bootinfo icons formatted?

On 6/3/23 3:58 PM, Ben Westover wrote: I don't think I really did. All I did was guess that the colors are stored in some sort of 3,3,2 8 bit color format since that's what standard CHRP does. My method for converting RGB pixels into 3,3,2 was based on a Stack Overflow answer that

Re: How are CHRP bootinfo icons formatted?

e anything close to photorealistic. I'm saying that basic things like Tux (only a few colors) look horrible compared to the one that yaboot supplies. -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How are CHRP bootinfo icons formatted?

logo for GRUB's CHRP icon in 2013, which is more likely to work. -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature