On Mar 28, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
With great thanks to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz we see new test images
have landed :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
Therefore I shall jump on that right away and begin a test install
on my dual disk PowerMac G5 "quad" and I hope for wonderful things.
On Mar 28, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
With great thanks to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz we see new test images
have landed :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
Therefore I shall jump on that right away and begin a test install
on my dual disk PowerMac G5 "quad" and I hope for wonderful things.
FWIW, I successfully tested those images myself on powerpc and sparc64.
On Mar 28, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
With great thanks to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz we see new test images
have landed :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
Therefore I shall jump on that right away and begin a test install
on my dual disk PowerMac G5 "quad" and I hope for wonderful things.
FWIW, I successfully tested those images myself on powerpc and sparc64.
Adrian
Works like a charm!
I simply used the default install option from the GRUB menu that
is provided by the installer and then followed the prompts. Not sure
what you changed but this time everything just flows naturally. Should
you wish I can redo the install and capture the syslog/partman files.
There are problems, of course, but they are with Debian as a whole
and not at all specific to the ppc64 installer or the ppc64 port. I
will move onwards to sparc64 and give that a whirl on some old sparc64
netra unit.
Also, merely a sidenote, I did the following to achieve perfection:
1) boot the installer image
2) follow some prompts to get to a shell
3) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=1048576
4) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 count=1048576
5) power off the machine cold
6) wait 60 seconds and then boot the installer
That resulted in the partition stage simply flowing naturally along
with blank disks for sda and sdb.
Hi!
On 3/28/22 22:58, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Works like a charm!
Good to hear!
If you're brave enough you can help verify that the G5 will still boot
with the "boot-device" variable in NVRAM set to NULL:
# nvram --update-config boot-device=""
3) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=1048576
4) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 count=1048576
5) power off the machine cold
6) wait 60 seconds and then boot the installer
That resulted in the partition stage simply flowing naturally along
with blank disks for sda and sdb.
Hmm, I have a hard time believing that it's related to that.
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