Hi all, hi Adrian,
downloaded the image and burnt on DVD. Now the iMac starts from DVD but hangs with:
smp_core99_probe
smp_core99_bringup_done
the ventilator is up high but nothing else happens.
I have ATI Radeon X600 (Rev 380) 3E50 (PCIE)
Any hints?
Claudia
Am Dienstag, 23. Januar 2024, 14:58:08 CET schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> Hi Claudia,
>
> On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 14:54 +0100, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> > I have an iMac G5, PowerMac 12,1 PPC970FX, Platform: PowerMac 12,1
> > MacRISC4
> > Power Macinstosh, Memory 1GB+384MB.
> >
> > I had installed Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS and it was running fine. Now I need
> > newer libc and so on. So I wanted to install Debian 12 or even Debian 13
> > on this iMac.
> This is a computer running in big-endian mode, so you need to install a
> big-endian PowerPC distribution.
>
> > Is that possible? I tried
> > debian-12.4.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso
> > but the iMac does not start from the DVD.
>
> The ppc64el Debian port targets little-endian PowerPC, so it's not
> compatible with your Mac.
>
> > What can I do?
>
> Please use this installation image:
> > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-12-14/debian-12.0.
> > 0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso
> Adrian
>
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