Re: Testers on PowerMac needed - overwriting the boot-device in NVRAM

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

On 3/27/22 17:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On Mar 27, 2022, at 10:51 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/25/22 03:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >
> > Then the machine DOES NOT boot.
> >
> > I see :
> >
> >
> >     Welcome to GRUB!
> >
> >     error: symbol `grub_disk_native_sectors' not found.
> >     grub rescue>
>
> This change is unrelated to the change. It indicates a broken GRUB installation.

No surprise at all.

> > Then, of course, the fans being their full speed noises.
> >
> > So, any ideas on what to type at that prompt?
>
> Try invoking the boot menu by holding down <Alt> and see if you can find an alternative working boot loader.
>
> If that doesn’t work, then my suspicion is that your installation is rather old and GRUB on this system was installed using the old hacky scripts.
>
> I don’t think the G5 behaves differently here than my G4.

I just fetched the most recent netinst image ( 2022-03-24 ) where I am
guessing a full reinstall will be perfectly possible. I would rather
find a way to repair the old hacky GRUB but sometimes a full reinstall
is a "good thing"(tm).

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