Hello everyone,
and a happy new year to you. Thanks to Covid19-based restrictions I
returned to a Mac PPC (PowerMac 11,2) the last days to rejoin the Apple
hardware party of my youth and do happy compiling on PPC64.
My attempts were not that lucky at all because each turn of trying to
install the snapshot mentioned failed.
I’m listing my observations here. Please tell me if and where to post
logs and/or bug reports. Thank you.
The issues I observed:
1. partman did not create a boot/HFS partition the `/usr/lib/os-probes`
tests could recognize. It seems these scripts utilize `blkid`, but
`blkid` would only recognize my boot partition (2MB) as HFS after I
manually formatted it using `hformat`.
2. Selecting KDE as environment in tasksel did not work (seems not all
dependencies could be resolved, but I did not dig deeper into this), I
chose Xfce, using that installation worked.
3. But whatever I did (even after fixing first issue), I did not manage
to install grub. I even tried the „ugly hack“, mentioned at
https://www.u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/installation/grub-problem/
to replace hfsprogs with an older snapshot within the target chroot. The
result stayed the same:
```
grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force
"dummy"
grub-installer: Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
grub-installer: grub-install: error:
grub-installer:
grub-installer: cannot find a GRUB drive for dummy. Check your
device.map
grub-installer: .
grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force "dummy"' failed.
```
If you need the full syslog, partman log and so on, just tell me where
to upload/store it.
Last question in advance: I saw sid PPC64 ships kernel version 5.10. Is
the following issue already patched or am I going to run into that one
as well and should wait until kernel has been updated to at least 5.10.2
(my PowerMac G5 still runs a GeForce 6600 currently)?
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210517
Thanks for your support in advance
Johannes
