Hi all!
I have several PowerPC based computers. One of them is an iMac G3/500 DV SE (powermac2,2) with 1 GB RAM and 30 GB hard drive.
I've had it with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but it's out of support already. It worked fine from boot perspective, and it was using yaboot.
I wanted to install Debian 12, now that I know that the architecture is being maintained.
The disk layout for this installation was:
Device / Size / Type / Mount point / Bootable
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/dev/sda13 128MB HFS /boot/grub yes
/dev/sda14 11GB ext4 / no
/dev/sda15 512MB swap no
However, when it comes the time to install grub, the system hangs at 16% progress of that stage.
I opened a console and checked. The process hung was grub-ieee1275
The system log (Alt+F4) showed a dump of a killed process.
I was able to kill that and finish the installation (users etcetera).
I booted in rescue mode. Then mounted and verified that /boot/grub was r/w.
Then tried to complete the installation, to no avail. The error message this time:
Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform . Errors were encountered while processing grub-ieee1275
Any hint of what I'm missing or doing wrong?
Any hint will be very much appreciated.
-- Regards,
Manuel Molina Cuberos