Re: powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05 "No installable kernel was found" installing on Mac mini G4
On 1/27/19 4:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> So I dug out an old Mac mini G4 and attempted to install the “powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05” CD on it.
>
> I accepted all the defaults (no “expert” mode) until it came up with the error
> “No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources”.
There is already a newer image available which fixes the kernel issue for me on sparc64:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-26/
> This occurred before it went looking for a network repo, so it must be talking about the CD image not having an installable kernel.
Yes, it is and it's a known problem that can occur during CD build from time to time, nothing
to worry about. You can see the kernel is missing by looking into the pool-sparc64/main/l/linux
subfolder and check whether the linux-image deb is there.
> I decided to “continue without installing a kernel” in hopes that I could get one from the network repo later on.
>
> When it came time to choose a network repo, I had no success trying to tell it that
> mirror protocol: http
> mirror : ftp.ports.debian.org
> directory : /debian-ports/
choose-mirror seems to have regressed in some way that it doesn't work anymore even with
the correct mirror data.
I will look into fixing the corresponding bug next:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879130
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918428
> Which allowed me to do:
> apt intall linux-image-powerpc
> and return to the installer where I continued to install a very basic system.
>
> That ended with “Installin GRUB bootloader” failing when it tried to execute “grub-install dummy”.
Yes, grub-installer doesn't work on PPC Macs at the moment, but I guess that was
mentioned on the list a couple of times already. Just go back to the main menu
and choose to install Yaboot instead which should work.
Adrian
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