Re: G4 semi-success
I have the same problem on my ibook g4. It does boot to single user
mode if I append "single" in grub. But otherwise it seems successful,
but then I get a blank screen. I checked the Xorg.0.log and it looks
normal. I also supplied a wireless firmware during installation
(though I manually copied the b43 files into /lib/firmware), I wonder
if that can somehow be related (seems unlikely). I haven't had time to
look into it much yet. I also noted that grub will not boot mac OS.
Best,
Ed
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 03:09, Doug Kiekow <dougy@iphouse.com> wrote:
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> Hi, and first off thanks for getting grub working.
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> First attempt, with guided partitioning after install it failed to boot.
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> Second attempt, same thing. So I booted into rescue off the cd, ran fdisk and found no partitions on /dev/sda
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> Third attempt, the installer asked for an additional file (it had asked for firmware-misc-nonfree_20190717-2_all.deb previously) regulatory.db. The closest I could come up with was wireless-regdb_2016.06.10-1_all.deb, which seemed to make the installer happy. Then i partitioned the disk manually with a 1Gb boot partition. Installation was successful, the system booted grub, and started to boot Debian, then went into a black screen. I’ve tried editing the esetparms with nomodeset, radeon.modeset=0, grub_gfxmode=1024x768x16, vga=ask and setting the run level to 1, all with the same black screen result.
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> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> PowerBook3,4 ATIMobility Radeon 7500
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