On 4/14/19 20:54, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 4/14/19 20:28, Rick Thomas wrote:On Apr 13, 2019, at 5:39 AM, Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote: Do you happen to have a smaller disk (e.g. below 128 GB) available for use? Or maybe you try with a separate small (512 MiB or so) `/boot` partition directly after the HFS bootstrap partition, so the kernel is located in the first GiB of this disk.Thanks, Frank! That was the clue it needed. I used the 2019-04-12 iso for my most recent test, just incase there was a change that might affect the problem. I did everything the same as I did for the original test, except that when it got to partitioning the disk, I chose guided partitioning and “Use whole disk, with LVM”. The LVM part forces it to create a separate /boot partition directly after the HFS one. That installed GRUB, which booted without a hitch.Cool, that it worked out for you. :-) Maybe something for the Debian wiki. We already have a machine specific part for sparc64 on [1] and something similar for powerpc/ppc64 could be useful for new users. I could test through my collection of B&W G3 and G4s to gather additional info. I expect later G4s won't have such a limitation. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Known_Working_System_Configurations
This firmware limitation is now documented in the Debian Wiki at [1]. Up until not I can confirm that this limitation is **not** present on a later PowerMac3,6 (see [1] for details about the testing). I'll subsequently test for this issue on other Power Macs and document my findings in the Debian Wiki. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC/ppc32#PowerMac3.2C4 Cheers, Frank