Bug#774811: debian-installer: debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 2015-01-05 08:58 278M doesn't boot
I just installed the current testing (Strech) on my iBook G4 using the netinstall cd with no issue.
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> On Apr 29, 2015, at 8:27 AM, gilles.charabot@charabot-org.fr wrote:
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> In March 2015, I have burned another CD with the same image powerpc Debian 7.4 that had managed to start it in April 2014 and this new CD does not boot . I think that this is the CD burner that doesn't work. I'm sorry. I think I said a wrong bug.
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> Le 2015-01-21 18:45, Herminio Hernandez Jr. a écrit :
>> For Jessie I did used the regular cd image not the netinstall
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>>> On Jan 21, 2015, at 5:21 AM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Since this problem is powerpc specific, I'm putting
>>> debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org in copy and since it concerns the
>>> bootability of an ISO image, I also add debian-cd@lists.debian.org.
>>>> On Wed, 07 Jan 2015, intervenant0 wrote:
>>>> I have downloaded debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 2015-01-05
>>>> and I have burned a CD-R disk with the previous named iso.
>>>> Then, I put the CD on my PowerMac G4 Gigabit
>>>> Ethernet and hold on the keyboard key named Option for booting on it.
>>>> The CD doesn't appear on boot screen. I make this twice, first with a
>>>> CD-R from imation, then with a CD-R from maxell, same results. Then I
>>>> have checked my CD-DVD drive by booting on my previous install CD :
>>>> debian-7.4.0-powerpc-netinst.iso and I succeed to boot.
>>> [ in another mail ]
>>>> Dear Maintainer, I have continued and tried an other iso :
>>>> debian-jessie-DI-b2-powerpc-netinst.iso
>>> [...]
>>>> Then, I put the
>>>> CD on my PowerMac G4 Gigabit Ethernet and hold on the keyboard key named
>>>> Option for booting on it. The CD doesn't appear on boot, so I have chose
>>>> Linux logo and clicked on it. So then, I have seen displayed :
>>>> First Stage Debian GNU/Linux Bootstrap
>>>> Press l for GNU/Linux,
>>>> x for MacOSX,
>>>> c for CDROM
>>>> Stage 1 Boot:
>>>> End of display
>>>> I have typed c and then the screen display following what was already
>>>> displayed :
>>>> Booting CDROM...
>>>> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fffffff6 at %SRR0:
>>>> End of display
>>> Does anyone have any idea why jessie ISO images would not be bootable
>>> on an old G4 ?
>>> Regards,
>>> --
>>> Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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