Re: Debian on iMac G5

[Mitch MRC <mitch_mrc@yahoo.com>]

Hello Adrian,

finally i just got time to do the installation on the G5 machine.

After the installation and reboot, the machine gets stuck and repeats:

i2c transfer at 0x49 failed, size 3, err -5

nouveau 0000:f0:10.0: XORG failed to idle.

during installation i was asked for a media with non-free firmware, which i ignored. :)

Should this be the issue?

How can i install this, and where to take the non-free fw for macppc?

Thank you,

Mitch

On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 03:37:01 PM GMT+3, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Hi Mitch!

On 8/31/21 17:38, Mitch MRC wrote:
> i used my iMac until the official support of Deb 10 was closed.I want to
> update the system and reinstall everything,Can anyone point me where to
> start? ISO, configs .

Use the image provided here [1]. Just install normally but make sure you
don't remove the /boot partition that the installer creates during installation.

If you see a blank error message, just answer it with <NO>. (Known issue, will
be fixed in the next release).

Adrian

> [1]

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-17/debian-10.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso

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