installation-reports: - succesfull installation on iMac G5 and powermac G5 Quad (ppc64)
Hi Aadrian,
I succesfully install debian with grub via NETINST.iso. On both (iMac
and powermac G5) installer work out of the box, I tested guided and
manual partitioning.
Installation reports send (958835,958844).
Thank you very much for great work.
I have only two minor things, but they are connected more with mac OF,
than with debian.
1) grub partition is not visible on mac early Startup Manager.
solution is simple - to "bless: file
"/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX" on grub partition. Unfortunatelly I
dont't know how to do it from debian itself. hfsutils: hattrib can
"bless" directory, not file.
Do somebody know how to "bless" single file ( like ybin does ?)?
I fix it with MorphOs command HFSSetMacBoot, but this is not available
without MorphOS.
2) if OF "boot-command" is set to something other than "mac-boot" (in my
case I have here exact boot-command with path for starting MorphOS) mac
don't boot with grub, and if there is no grub visible on Startup
manager, only way how to boot linux if OF command.
It can be fixed by setting nvsetenv boot-device to "ofpath\grub" or to
"mac-boot"
I am very happy that there is again modern Debian for these machines.
I also installed desktops ( lxde, lxqt, mate ) - all without problems,
2D,3D working on iMac. ( on powermac I have X1900 G5 Edition card,
which is incompatible with linux)
Now I will try installations on powerbook G4, and try to made custom
vmlinux to install Debian on Pegasos2 and AmigaX1000.
thanks to all for a lot of hard work
best regards
Martine
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